produce
1 of 2verb
pro·duce prə-ˈdüs 
prō-,
-ˈdyüs
produced; producing
transitive verb
1
: to offer to view or notice
2
: to give birth or rise to : yield
3
: to extend in length, area, or volume
produce a side of a triangle
4
: to make available for public exhibition or dissemination: such as
a
: to provide funding for
search for backers to produce the film
b
: to oversee the making of
will produce their new album
5
a
: to cause to have existence or to happen : bring about
b
: to give being, form, or shape to : make
especially : manufacture
6
: to compose, create, or bring out by intellectual or physical effort
7
: to cause to accrue
intransitive verb
: to bear, make, or yield something
producible
prə-ˈdü-sə-bəl
adjective prō-
-ˈdyü-
produce
2 of 2noun
pro·duce ˈprō-(ˌ)düs
also
ˈprä- -(ˌ)dyüs
1
a
: something produced
b
: the amount produced : yield
2
: agricultural products and especially fresh fruits and vegetables as distinguished from grain and other staple crops
3
: the progeny usually of a female animal
Synonyms
Verb
- beget
- breed
- bring
- bring about
- bring on
- catalyze
- cause
- create
- do
- draw on
- effect
- effectuate
- engender
- generate
- induce
- invoke
- make
- occasion
- prompt
- result (in)
- spawn
- translate (into)
- work
- yield
Noun
- affair
- fruit
- handiwork
- labor
- output
- product
- production
- thing
- work
- yield
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Example Sentences
Verb Thousands of cars are produced here each year. The tree produces good fruit. Honey is produced by bees. twins produced from a single egg The insect bite produced a rash. His suggestion produced the desired results. The region produces large amounts of cotton and tobacco. The college has produced some well-known scientists. Noun a book that was the produce of a lifetime of study on the subject See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022 That means that if a bad mismatch occurs during a flu season, scientists could potentially produce a new batch of mRNA flu vaccines targeting the right genetic sequences during the same season. Time, 14 Sep. 2022 Shane Lowry tapped in for birdie at the 18th hole to finish at 17-under and then had to wait to see if Rory McIlroy could produce something special to force a playoff. San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2022 Some parts of the world, like Russia, Scandinavia and Canada, could produce more grains and other food crops to feed countries as global temperatures rise. Keith Bradsher, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022 And gusty winds could complicate firefighting efforts, while particularly intense downpours in a wildfire footprint could produce severe debris flows. Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022 The storms also could produce lightning, forecasters said, which can spark wildfires. Robert Jablon, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2022 The storms also could produce lightning, forecasters said, which can spark wildfires. Robert Jablon, ajc, 5 Sep. 2022 That has the Giants looking forward to what a season of a healthy Toney could produce. Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2022 Susan Puckett, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022 Sherman relished the local Huichol food: the nixtamalized-blue-corn masa and handmade tortillas, the salsas and seasonings—chilis, hoja santa, achiote—and the fresh produce. Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022 Rio’s city hall provides locals with seeds, tools and a $100 monthly stipend to farm strips of land in the slum communities, requiring them to sell half the produce at cheap prices and donate the rest. Samantha Pearson, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022 These will include a detailed look at the great lengths that durian farmers go to grow the highest quality produce, such as wrapping each individual fruit to protect it from the elements. Patrick Frater, Variety, 9 Sep. 2022 The produce harvested from the gardens is given free to community members. Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022 Thanks to the vents that regulate airflow and the elevated base that separates the produce from its moisture, the containers have kept my strawberries, lettuce, and peppers fresh for several days—even weeks in some cases. Lily Gray, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2022 Plantings must be fenced to deter larger pests, and water and fertilizer applied if the produce is to flourish. Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022 One high-profile bill will affect the plastic bags in the produce and bulk bin sections of grocery stores. Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022 See More
Verb
Richter’s endless toggling between photographs and large-scale abstract paintings showed the high-art world that an apprehension of meaninglessness and a technique dependent on chance could nonetheless produce images of ravishing beauty. Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022 That means that if a bad mismatch occurs during a flu season, scientists could potentially produce a new batch of mRNA flu vaccines targeting the right genetic sequences during the same season. Time, 14 Sep. 2022 Shane Lowry tapped in for birdie at the 18th hole to finish at 17-under and then had to wait to see if Rory McIlroy could produce something special to force a playoff. San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2022 Some parts of the world, like Russia, Scandinavia and Canada, could produce more grains and other food crops to feed countries as global temperatures rise. Keith Bradsher, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022 And gusty winds could complicate firefighting efforts, while particularly intense downpours in a wildfire footprint could produce severe debris flows. Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022 The storms also could produce lightning, forecasters said, which can spark wildfires. Robert Jablon, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2022 The storms also could produce lightning, forecasters said, which can spark wildfires. Robert Jablon, ajc, 5 Sep. 2022 That has the Giants looking forward to what a season of a healthy Toney could produce. Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2022 Noun
Monoculture, the practice of growing single species with identical genes in the same field, is responsible for much of the uniform produce available to us year-round in supermarkets. Susan Puckett, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022 Sherman relished the local Huichol food: the nixtamalized-blue-corn masa and handmade tortillas, the salsas and seasonings—chilis, hoja santa, achiote—and the fresh produce. Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022 Rio’s city hall provides locals with seeds, tools and a $100 monthly stipend to farm strips of land in the slum communities, requiring them to sell half the produce at cheap prices and donate the rest. Samantha Pearson, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022 These will include a detailed look at the great lengths that durian farmers go to grow the highest quality produce, such as wrapping each individual fruit to protect it from the elements. Patrick Frater, Variety, 9 Sep. 2022 The produce harvested from the gardens is given free to community members. Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022 Thanks to the vents that regulate airflow and the elevated base that separates the produce from its moisture, the containers have kept my strawberries, lettuce, and peppers fresh for several days—even weeks in some cases. Lily Gray, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2022 Plantings must be fenced to deter larger pests, and water and fertilizer applied if the produce is to flourish. Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022 One high-profile bill will affect the plastic bags in the produce and bulk bin sections of grocery stores. Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English (Scots), from Latin producere, from pro- forward + ducere to lead — more at tow entry 1
First Known Use
Verb
15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
Noun
1657, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Phrases Containing produce
Kids Definition
produce 1 of 2
verb
pro·duce prə-ˈdüs
-ˈdyüs
produced; producing
1
: to bring forth : yield
This tree produces good fruit.
A trumpet … player can produce all the notes of the musical scale. E. B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan
E. B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan2
: manufacture entry 1 sense 1
This city produces steel.
3
: to bring to view : exhibit
Can you produce evidence to support your claim?
4
: to prepare (as a play) for public presentation
produce
2 of 2noun
pro·duce ˈprä-ˌdüs
ˈprō-,
-ˌdyüs
: fresh fruits and vegetables
producing 1 of 2
adjective
as in yielding
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- yielding
- bearing
- generative
- prolific
- fertile
- productive
- fecund
- abundant
- fruitful
- rich
- bountiful
- copious
- abounding
- plentiful
- luxuriant
- bursting
- fructuous
- blooming
- thriving
- creative
- flourishing
- swarming
- generous
- lush
- teeming
- cornucopian
- inventive
- liberal
- fat
- original
- plenteous
- plenitudinous
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- sterile
- dead
- unproductive
- barren
- spare
- infertile
- scant
- scanty
- sparse
- meager
- unfertile
- unfruitful
- skimpy
- meagre
- skimp
producing
2 of 2verb
1
as in creating
to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) hopefully, the new approach to fighting substance abuse will produce better results Synonyms & Similar Words
- creating
- generating
- causing
- bringing
- doing
- spawning
- prompting
- working
- yielding
- inducing
- making
- effecting
- catalyzing
- invoking
- engendering
- effectuating
- begetting
- breeding
- occasioning
- promoting
- bringing about
- introducing
- bringing on
- bringing forth
- drawing on
- encouraging
- developing
- inaugurating
- launching
- establishing
- initiating
- translating (into)
- pioneering
- determining
- giving rise to
- cultivating
- innovating
- instituting
- founding
- starting
- fostering
- beginning
- resulting (in)
- enacting
- deciding
- rendering
- furthering
- nurturing
- fathering
- advancing
- nourishing
- forwarding
- conducing (to)
- setting
- contributing (to)
- setting up
- turning out
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- limiting
- restricting
- impeding
- suppressing
- controlling
- crushing
- repressing
- checking
- subduing
- inhibiting
- squashing
- smothering
- quelling
- quashing
- arresting
- squelching
- stifling
- curbing
- restraining
- dampening
- retarding
- destroying
- killing
- abolishing
- extinguishing
- liquidating
- stilling
- reining (in)
- putting down
- demolishing
- canning
- quenching
- clamping down (on)
- cracking down (on)
- snuffing (out)
2
as in delivering
to bring forth from the womb rabbits can potentially produce many offspring at once Synonyms & Similar Words
- delivering
- having
- generating
- birthing
- reproducing
- mothering
- bearing
- dropping
- getting
- spawning
- breeding
- propagating
- laboring
- multiplying
- giving birth to
- siring
- begetting
- fathering
- littering
- kindling
- calving
- pupping
- kittening
- whelping
- kidding
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- losing
- aborting
- miscarrying
3
as in making
to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials a factory producing steel Synonyms & Similar Words
- making
- manufacturing
- creating
- forming
- constructing
- assembling
- fashioning
- building
- fabricating
- framing
- crafting
- organizing
- shaping
- structuring
- designing
- putting together
- erecting
- establishing
- inventing
- forging
- molding
- rearing
- raising
- originating
- devising
- concocting
- handcrafting
- hewing
- instituting
- making up
- throwing up
- visualizing
- minting
- conceiving
- imagining
- remaking
- setting up
- knocking out
- putting up
- fathering
- envisaging
- prefabricating
- contriving
- throwing up
- picturing
- refashioning
- remanufacturing
- patching (together)
- cobbling (together or up)
- cooking (up)
- thinking (up)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dismantling
- destroying
- eradicating
- wrecking
- abolishing
- disassembling
- extinguishing
- smashing
- ruining
- flattening
- pulverizing
- annihilating
- shattering
- exterminating
- demolishing
- exploding
- breaking up
- devastating
- taking apart
- dismembering
- razing
- blowing up
4
as in displaying
to present so as to invite notice or attention he produced his brand-new driver's license at every possible opportunity Synonyms & Similar Words
- displaying
- exhibiting
- showing
- exposing
- flashing
- announcing
- unveiling
- waving
- parading
- flaunting
- sporting
- strutting
- advertising
- showing off
- revealing
- proclaiming
- disporting
- discovering
- broadcasting
- publicizing
- laying out
- flourishing
- brandishing
- posting
- airing
- divulging
- trumpeting
- uncovering
- heralding
- baring
- sounding
- blazing
- placarding
- unmasking
- telling (of)
- uncloaking
- talking (about)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- disguising
- masking
- camouflaging
- covering
- concealing
- hiding
- obscuring
- occluding
- shrouding
- veiling
- enshrouding
- curtaining
- occulting