underbreed

verb

Etymology

From under- + breed.

  1. derived from *bʰreh₁- — “warm
  2. inherited from *brōdijaną — “to brood
  3. inherited from brēdan
  4. inherited from breden
  5. prefixed as underbreed — “under + breed

Definitions

  1. To breed insufficiently.

    • Whether this political torrent is to be for good or bad for the country at large, whether it is going to breed statesmen or underbreed statesmanship, are points on which a physician need offer no opinion.
    • It is just as hopeless to overbreed the under-cultured, as it is to underbreed the cultural.
    • "Some owners underbreed and lose out on making money," Gurrola said.
  2. An inferior or subservient breed of people or sentient beings.

    • Leaf felt degraded by that — hiring on, in effect, as an indentured underbreed — but what choice was there for him?
    • I had an idea who it was but called the command post and demanded the names of the underbreeds who had last piloted the jet

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA