'Engender' definitions:
Definition of 'engender'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Engender'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife. [1913 Webster]
- Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth. --Southey.
- Syn: To breed; generate; procreate; propagate; occasion; call forth; cause; excite; develop. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Engender'
From: GCIDE
- Engender \En*gen"der\, v. i.
- 1. To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. [1913 Webster]
- Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender." --Massinger. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Engender'
From: GCIDE
- Engender \En*gen"der\, n. One who, or that which, engenders. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'engender'
From: Moby 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