| VERB | change | incubate | grow under conditions that promote development |
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| body | incubate, brood, hatch, cover | sit on (eggs) |
| Sounds | ih'nkyahbey.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | Grow under conditions that promote development. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Broader | develop | Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment |
| Spanish | incubar | |
| Catalan | incubar | |
| Nouns | incubation | maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development |
| incubation | (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear | |
| Meaning | Sit on (eggs). | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | brood, hatch, cover | |
| Entails | sit down, sit | Take a seat / seat / seat |
| Broader | reproduce, procreate, multiply | have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant |
| Similar to | breed, cover | copulate with a female, used especially of horses |
| hatch | emerge from the eggs | |
| Spanish | aclocarse, cubrir, empollar, incubar | |
| Catalan | cubar, incubar | |
| Nouns | incubation | sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body |
| incubator | apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat | |
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