Sekirov Dictionary

sire

/saɪə(ɹ)/

noun 5
verb 2
forms 4

noun5

A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and in biological research).
a title once used when speaking to a king or another man with power over others
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The vampire who turned another person.
- There is a toxin in a vampire’s fangs that will infect its victim when the sire drinks deeply and fully of their blood. — 2010
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(no longer used) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
- He but a Duke, would haue his Sonne a King, / And raise his issue like a louing Sire. — 1591
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(no longer used) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
- Most musical of mourners, weep again! / Lament anew, Urania!—He died, / Who was the sire of an immortal strain, […] — 1821

verb2

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To father; to beget.
- In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls. — 1994
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To turn (another person) into a vampire.
- “Do you think they were wannabes, then? Groupies who found a willing vamp to sire them?” — 2008

forms

sired · siring · sires · sireth

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