Engender
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English
Verb
Engender (third-person singular simple present Engenders, present participle Engendering, simple past and past participle Engendered)
- (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
- (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex.
Verb
Engender (third-person singular simple present Engenders, present participle Engendering, simple past and past participle Engendered)
Synonyms for Engender
- (to bring into existence) beget, conjure, create, produce, make, craft, manufacture, invent, assemble
- breed, cause, excite, generate, incite, occasion, procreate, reproduce.
Antonyms for Engender
Thesaurus
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
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre, from in- + generāre (“to generate”).
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Etymology 2
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