Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To subject to inbreeding.
  • intransitive verb To engage in inbreeding.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To breed, generate, or develop within.
  • To breed from animals of the same parentage or otherwise closely related; breed in-and-in.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To produce or generate within.
  • transitive verb To breed in and in. See under Breed, v. i.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To breed or reproduce with those that are related.
  • verb To breed with those that share common traits or qualities.
  • verb To produce or generate within.

Etymologies

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From in- +‎ breed.

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