Word Meanings - ENGENDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. 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;

Additional info about word: ENGENDER

1. To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENGENDER)

• Dreed Generate
• procreate
• engender
• propagate
• produce
• beget
• hatch
• nourish
• train
• instruct
• evolve
• cause
• Create
• Form
• make
• compose
• constitute
• generate
• fashion
• originate
• educe
• invent
• imagine
• Generate
• Engender
• breed

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• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
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  p. p. of Drench to drown. Chaucer.
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  Capable of being broken.
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• DREADNOUGHT
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• FASHIONED
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