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Reproduce

verb

Make a copy or equivalent of.

Have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant. Synonyms: multiply, procreate.

Recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.. "He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait"

Repeat after memorization. Synonym: regurgitate.

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"Reproduce" Quotes from Famous Books

... by briefly reviewing that past, then trying to reproduce in imagination the immediate atmosphere of Hawthorne's youth, and comparing the two, that we shall best arrive at the completion of our proposed portrait. We have first to study the dim perspective and the suggestive coloring of that historic background from ...

— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop

... rocks,—big, noisy, harmless fellows, that had procreated the year gone, lain frozen through the winter, and were now rejuvenated to buzz through swift senility to second death. All sorts of creeping, crawling, fluttering life came forth from the warming earth and hastened to mature, reproduce, and cease. Just a breath of balmy air, and then the long cold frost again—ah! they knew it well and lost no time. Sand martins were driving their ancient tunnels into the soft clay banks, and robins singing on the spruce-garbed islands. Overhead ...

— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London

... and in the silence Pen soon after heard a low, deep breathing which told him that his wounded companion had once more sunk asleep, while on his part a busy brain and a smarting hand tended to reproduce the evening scene, and with it a series of mental questions as to what would be the result; and so startling were some of the suggestions that came to trouble the watcher that he placed himself by the side of the bed farthest from the door and ...

— !Tention - A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War • George Manville Fenn

... followed between Mrs. Yellett and Leander as to how far back he had dropped his teeth, cannot be given, owing to the inadequacy of the English language to reproduce his toothless enunciation. Catching, as Mary did, the meaning of Mrs. Yellett's remarks only, she received something of the one-sided impression given by overhearing ...

— Judith Of The Plains • Marie Manning

... written by an eye-witness, bears the stamp of authenticity, and is furthermore re-enforced by a careful and most graphic drawing made on the spot, which I here reproduce, and fully substantiates the previous statement by Dr. Jenner. The scene of the tragedy was the nest of a pipit, or titlark, on the ground beneath a heather-bush. When first discovered it contained two pipit's eggs and ...

— My Studio Neighbors • William Hamilton Gibson

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