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Inbred has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

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Noun
1

An inbred individual.

"The village elder warned against marrying within the family, fearing that an inbred child might be born weak and sickly."

Verb
1

simple past tense and past participle of inbreed

"The isolated village had become genetically unstable after generations when its members were inbred to survive harsh winters."

Adjective
1

produced by inbreeding

"The rare orchid displayed at the botanical garden was a unique variety produced by inbreeding to preserve its distinctive white petals."

2

normally existing at birth

"mankind's connatural sense of the good"

3

Bred within; innate.

"The team's success seemed to be an inbred trait that had passed down through generations of dedicated athletes."

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