engender

Verb

Verb Forms: engendered, engendering, engenders

• To cause or give rise to a feeling or situation.
• call forth
• make children
• To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
• To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
• To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
• To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
• To copulate, to have sex.
• To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.

Examples

• A well-executed bingo play can ENGENDER a sense of dread in your opponent.

Synonyms

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