engender

engender
    v 1: call forth [syn: {engender}, {breed}, {spawn}]
    2: make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father
       children but don't recognize them" [syn: {beget}, {get},
       {engender}, {father}, {mother}, {sire}, {generate}, {bring
       forth}]
    

Engender \En*gen"der\, n.
   One who, or that which, engenders.
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Engender \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.]
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   2. To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the
      seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
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            Engendering friendship in all parts of the common
            wealth.                               --Southey.

   Syn: To breed; generate; procreate; propagate; occasion; call
        forth; cause; excite; develop.
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Engender \En*gen"der\, v. i.
   1. To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or
      produced.
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            Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw
      their mouths engender." --Massinger.
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93 Moby Thesaurus words for "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