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The Meaning of produce

  • (v. t.) To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
  • (v. t.) To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery.
  • (v. t.) To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.
  • (v. t.) To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit.
  • (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore.
  • (v. t.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.
  • (v. i.) To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results.
  • (n.) That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors
  • (n.) agricultural products.

Synonyms

Exhibit , bear , furbish , afford , cause , create , originate , yield , extend , prolong , lengthen. , Product , yield , fruit , profit , effect , consequence , result , amount , [See RESULT].

Antonyms

Withdraw , retain , stifle , withhold , neutralize , destroy , annihilate , curtail , shorten , contract , reduce.

Rhymes

abstruse , abuse , asmus , boose , bruce , caboose , chartreuse , cheuse , coos , cruce , cuisse , damoose , deduce , derousse , deuce , deuss , diffuse , disabuse , disuse , doose , douce , druce , duce , ekeus , excuse , footloose , goose , hoose , induce , introduce , juice , labouisse , lajous , loose , luce , misuse , moose , mousse , noose , nous , obtuse , overproduce , prepuce , preuss , profuse , recluse , reduce , reintroduce , reproduce , reuse , ruess , seduce , seuss , sluice , spruce , truce , tyus , use , vanhoose , yous , zeus