About The Word Engender
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Engender
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What's The Definition Of Engender?
[v] make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
[v] call forth Synonyms | Synonyms for Engender: beget | breed | bring forth | father | generate | get | mother | sire | spawn Related Terms | Find terms related to Engender: arouse | author | be fruitful | be productive | bear | beget | birth | breed | breed true | bring about | bring forth | bring into being | bring to birth | bring to effect | bring to pass | call into being | cause | coin | conceive | concoct | contrive | cook up | copulate | create | crossbreed | design | develop | devise | discover | do | dream up | effect | effectuate | establish | evolve | excite | fabricate | father | found | frame | fructify | generate | gestate | get | give being to | give birth to | give occasion to | give origin to | give rise to | hatch | improvise | inaugurate | inbreed | induce | institute | invent | make | make do with | make love | make up | mature | mint | mother | multiply | muster up | occasion | originate | outbreed | plan | procreate | produce | proliferate | propagate | provoke | pullulate | quicken | realize | reproduce | reproduce in kind | rouse | set afloat | set on foot | set up | sire | spawn | stimulate | stir | strike out | teem | think out | think up | work | work up See Also | cause | create | do | make | make Engender In Webster's Dictionary \En*gen"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Engendered}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Engendering}.] [F. engender, L. ingenerare; in +
generare to beget. See {Generate}, and cf. {Ingenerate}.]
1. To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [R.]
2. To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the
seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
Engendering friendship in all parts of the common
wealth. --Southey.
Syn: To breed; generate; procreate; propagate; occasion; call
forth; cause; excite; develop.
\En*gen"der\, v. i. 1. To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there. --Dryden. 2. To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. ``I saw their mouths engender.'' --Massinger. \En*gen"der\, n. One who, or that which, engenders. |
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