1TAto be the father of an animal, especially a horse or dog 〔尤指雄性的马或狗〕生殖,繁殖
a stallion that has sired several race winners
繁殖了好几匹赛马冠军的种马
2old-fashionedSEX/HAVE SEX WITH to be the father of a child 为〔人〕之父
Sam sired eight children.
萨姆育有八个孩子。
Examples from the Corpus
sire• In many societies the father has no specialresponsibility to support the specific children he sires.• He went on to sire a dozen children, and they all grew up to be musically talented as well.• Augustine kept a mistress and sired a son out of wedlock.• By the time he was twenty Rasputin had married a local girl and before long had sired four children.• Impressionismbegat post-impressionism, which begat cubism, which siredfuturism, expressionism and all manner of errantabstractions.• He's very old, and has sired nineteen sons on various women.• Stallions who run well on off-tracks tend to sire offspring that do the same.• The stallion has sired several racewinners.