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Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.
David McCallum

Meaning of "procreate" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROCREATE

From Latin prōcreāre, from pro-1 + creāre to create.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PROCREATE

procreate  [ˈprəʊkrɪˌeɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROCREATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Procreate is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb procreate in English.

WHAT DOES PROCREATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

procreate

Reproduction

Reproduction is the biological process by which new "offspring" individual organisms are produced from their "parents". Reproduction is a fundamental feature of all known life; each individual organism exists as the result of reproduction. The known methods of reproduction are broadly grouped into two main types: sexual and asexual. In asexual reproduction, an individual can reproduce without involvement with another individual of that species. The division of a bacterial cell into two daughter cells is an example of asexual reproduction. Asexual reproduction is not, however, limited to single-celled organisms. Most plants have the ability to reproduce asexually and the ant species Mycocepurus smithii is thought to reproduce entirely by asexual means. Sexual reproduction typically requires the involvement of two individuals or gametes, one each from opposite type of sex. The propagation of organisms can also occur through cloning.

Definition of procreate in the English dictionary

The definition of procreate in the dictionary is to beget or engender. Other definition of procreate is to bring into being.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PROCREATE

PRESENT

Present
I procreate
you procreate
he/she/it procreates
we procreate
you procreate
they procreate
Present continuous
I am procreating
you are procreating
he/she/it is procreating
we are procreating
you are procreating
they are procreating
Present perfect
I have procreated
you have procreated
he/she/it has procreated
we have procreated
you have procreated
they have procreated
Present perfect continuous
I have been procreating
you have been procreating
he/she/it has been procreating
we have been procreating
you have been procreating
they have been procreating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I procreated
you procreated
he/she/it procreated
we procreated
you procreated
they procreated
Past continuous
I was procreating
you were procreating
he/she/it was procreating
we were procreating
you were procreating
they were procreating
Past perfect
I had procreated
you had procreated
he/she/it had procreated
we had procreated
you had procreated
they had procreated
Past perfect continuous
I had been procreating
you had been procreating
he/she/it had been procreating
we had been procreating
you had been procreating
they had been procreating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will procreate
you will procreate
he/she/it will procreate
we will procreate
you will procreate
they will procreate
Future continuous
I will be procreating
you will be procreating
he/she/it will be procreating
we will be procreating
you will be procreating
they will be procreating
Future perfect
I will have procreated
you will have procreated
he/she/it will have procreated
we will have procreated
you will have procreated
they will have procreated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been procreating
you will have been procreating
he/she/it will have been procreating
we will have been procreating
you will have been procreating
they will have been procreating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would procreate
you would procreate
he/she/it would procreate
we would procreate
you would procreate
they would procreate
Conditional continuous
I would be procreating
you would be procreating
he/she/it would be procreating
we would be procreating
you would be procreating
they would be procreating
Conditional perfect
I would have procreate
you would have procreate
he/she/it would have procreate
we would have procreate
you would have procreate
they would have procreate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been procreating
you would have been procreating
he/she/it would have been procreating
we would have been procreating
you would have been procreating
they would have been procreating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you procreate
we let´s procreate
you procreate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to procreate
Past participle
procreated
Present Participle
procreating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROCREATE


affiliate
əˈfɪlɪˌeɪt
appreciate
əˈpriːʃɪˌeɪt
associate
əˈsəʊʃɪˌeɪt
confarreate
kənˈfærɪˌeɪt
disappropriate
ˌdɪsəˈprəʊprɪˌeɪt
dispropriate
dɪsˈprəʊprɪˌeɪt
ebriate
ˈiːbrɪˌeɪt
elutriate
ɪˈluːtrɪˌeɪt
excoriate
ɪkˈskɔːrɪˌeɪt
expropriate
ɛksˈprəʊprɪˌeɪt
impropriate
ɪmˈprəʊprɪˌeɪt
inebriate
ɪnˈiːbrɪˌeɪt
infuriate
ɪnˈfjʊərɪˌeɪt
luxuriate
lʌɡˈzjʊərɪˌeɪt
misappropriate
ˌmɪsəˈprəʊprɪˌeɪt
patriate
ˈpætrɪˌeɪt
reappropriate
ˌriːəˈprəʊprɪˌeɪt
recreate
ˈrɛkrɪˌeɪt
repatriate
riːˈpætrɪˌeɪt
uniseriate
ˌjuːnɪˈsɪərɪˌeɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROCREATE

proconsulate
proconsulship
Procopius
procrastinate
procrastination
procrastinative
procrastinator
procrastinatory
procreant
procreation
procreational
procreative
procreativeness
procreator
Procrustean
Procrustes
procrypses
procrypsis
procryptic
procryptically

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROCREATE

aureate
baccalaureate
chalybeate
cocreate
concreate
create
delineate
ideate
increate
laureate
maleate
miscreate
nucleate
ocreate
permeate
poet laureate
poets laureate
re-create
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uncreate

Synonyms and antonyms of procreate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PROCREATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «procreate» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of procreate

Translation of «procreate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROCREATE

Find out the translation of procreate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of procreate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «procreate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

生育
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

procrear
570 millions of speakers

English

procreate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पैदा करना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإنجاب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

потомство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

procriar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সন্তান উত্পাদন করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

procréer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kelahiran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zeugen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

子を産む
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

낳다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Procreate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sanh đẻ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குழந்தை பெறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रजनन करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

üretmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

procreare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prokreacji
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

потомство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

procrea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παράγω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voortbring
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

procreate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

formere seg
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of procreate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROCREATE»

The term «procreate» is regularly used and occupies the 89.874 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROCREATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «procreate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «procreate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about procreate

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5 QUOTES WITH «PROCREATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word procreate.
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Robert Bork
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.
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David McCallum
Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.
3
George Murray
I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.
4
Chloe Sevigny
I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the description, come up and say hi. I won't bite. Well, maybe a little, if you're lucky.
5
Patti Stanger
For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it. The men don't want to get married, they're lazy lions. Matthew McConaughey is their poster boy so they can procreate and live on the beach in the trailer and have kids and have money and be hedonistic.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROCREATE»

Discover the use of procreate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to procreate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Born to Procreate: Women and Childbirth in France from the ...
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M.
Rolande J. Graves, 2001
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Medical Law and Moral Rights
The Supreme Court of Tennessee decided this unresolved issue by applying the constitutional right to procreate. In doing so, it did not suggest that the positive liberty to procreate was limited to exclude the use of even the most complex ...
Carl Wellman, 2005
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Ethical Issues in Maternal-Fetal Medicine
These reasons also help explain why freedom to procreate should be valued; namely, because procreation can be important to persons in the ways just discussed, including contributing to self-identity and self-fulfillment. Because of these ...
Donna Dickenson, 2002
4
Contrasts in American and Jewish Law
A. The Biblical and Talmudic Basis of the Commandment to Procreate This section begins with a discussion of the mitzvah (commandment) to procreate, and examines the scope of this mitzvah. Noted are exemptions from this mitzvah, as well ...
Daniel Pollack, 2001
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Historical records of the family of Leslie from 1067 to ...
procreated of his Body ; which failing, to the Heirs-male lawfully to have been procreate of the Bodies of Teresa, Mary, Margaret, and Jean Leslie, successive, without Division, and the Heirs-male lawfully to have been procreate of their Bodies, ...
Charles Joseph Leslie, 1869
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Creating the Child: The Ethics, Law, and Practice of ...
A RIGHT TO PROCREATE? Assisted Conception, Ordinary Procreation and Adoption Martyn Evans Centre for Philosophy and Health Care University of Wales, Swansea Singleton Park Swansea Wales 1 . The Idea of a 'Natural Right' to ...
Donald Evans, Neil Pickering, 1996
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Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender
a child, yet it is uncommon to discuss this as an instance of the right to procreate. Secondly, a gestational link as such can justify claims to the right. While surrogacy arrangements sever the link between pregnancy and rearing, a woman's ...
Frida Simonstein, 2009
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First Do No Harm: Law, Ethics and Healthcare
As a practical matter, a person who does not wish to procreate has the fail-safe options of either remaining celibate or engaging only in same-sex relations in order to avoid procreation. Aside the usual, but nonetheless tragic, case of a rape  ...
Professor Sheila A McLean, 2013
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The Contingent Nature of Life: Bioethics and the Limits of ...
Today, the idea of a duty to procreate has more or less disappeared. Duty-talk has been replaced by what Mary Ann Glendon has called rights-talk: people have or at least claim to have a right to procreate. Of course, such a right to procreate ...
Marcus Düwell, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Dietmar Mieth, 2008
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History of the County of Ayr: With a Genealogical Account of ...
It runs as follows : " To myself, and the heirs-male, lawfully procreate, or to be procreate, of my own body ; whilk failing, to the heirs-female, lawfully procreate, or to be procreate, of my own body ; whilk failing, to Kobert Fullarton, Writer to the  ...
James Paterson, 1852

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROCREATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term procreate is used in the context of the following news items.
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14-year-old rape victim moves SC for abortion
... of the Constitution. It is important to recognize that reproductive choices can be exercised to procreate as well as to abstain from procreating. «Times of India, Jul 15»
2
Fantasia 2015 Review: SHE WHO MUST BURN Scorches The …
... from the good ship Serenity as one can imagine) fails to consent to his 'desire to procreate' and she is severely beaten for her unwillingness, ... «TwitchFilm, Jul 15»
3
World births and migration
Hence many rich countries (and some middle-income ones like Iran and Turkey) are trying to persuade their citizens to procreate more ... «Next Big Future, Jul 15»
4
Criminalizing Right to Conscience, Part I
That marriage has long stood as God's provision for the biological imperative (to procreate) and for the cultural imperative (personal ... «Patriot Post, Jul 15»
5
Valley Voice: Cat lovers have special responsibilities
Otherwise, these well-intentioned souls are allowing these animals to procreate and overload the capacity of rescues and shelters. «The Desert Sun, Jul 15»
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The Bella Twins WWE Rumors: Nikki Gets Angry At Daniel Bryan In …
In the video, Bryan sits with The Bella Twins at a table and the three of them discuss marriage and Bryan and Brie trying to procreate. Nikki says ... «Sports World News, Jul 15»
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Europe's crisis. God's opportunity
... early stages of another social crisis that is entirely of its own making: the ageing of its population due to Europeans' reticence to procreate. «Evangelical Focus, Jul 15»
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EDITORIAL: Artificial intelligence challenges distinction between …
If, in the future, a demonstrably sentient machine claims the right that humans have to procreate, or build copies of itself, who can say nay? «Washington Times, Jul 15»
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Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith open marriage, gay nor divorce …
But the bad Jada goes, “Wow, procreate! Procreate! Procreate!'” Despite such strong emotions battling inside her, she will never act on them, ... «ThyBlackMan, Jul 15»
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Legal judgements and consequences
People should be free to love whom they wish, but homosexuals cannot procreate and so cannot help in the replacement of populations as ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»

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