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    engender
    /ɪnˈdʒɛndə/

    verb

    • 1. cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition): "the issue engendered continuing controversy"

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  2. ENGENDER definition: 1. to make people have a particular feeling or make a situation start to exist: 2. to make people…. Learn more.

  3. 1. : beget, procreate. 2. : to cause to exist or to develop : produce. policies that have engendered controversy. intransitive verb. : to assume form : originate. Did you know? A good paragraph about engender will engender understanding in the reader.

  4. ENGENDER meaning: 1. to make people have a particular feeling or make a situation start to exist: 2. to make people…. Learn more.

  5. Engender definition: to produce, cause, or give rise to. See examples of ENGENDER used in a sentence.

  6. Engender is a fancy way of saying "to make happen," like when you engender the spirit of teamwork and cooperation by encouraging others and doing your share of the group's work.

  7. 1. to produce, cause, or give rise to: Hatred engendered violence. 2. to beget; procreate. v.i. 3. to be produced or caused; come into existence. [1275–1325; Middle English < Old French engendrer < Latin ingenerāre = in- en - 1 + generāre to beget]

  8. engender something to make a feeling or situation exist. The issue engendered controversy. problems engendered by the restructuring of the company; The place engendered immediate feelings of friendship and belonging.

  9. Meaning & use. I. To produce (offspring), to procreate, and related senses. I.1. Now literary or archaic. I.1.a. a1325–. transitive. To bring (a child) into existence by the process of reproduction; to produce (offspring), to have (children). Formerly often in passive with between, betwixt, of: to be the child or offspring of; to be descended from.

  10. ENGENDER definition: to make people have a particular feeling or make a situation start to exist: . Learn more.

  11. To bring into being; bring about; cause; produce. Pity engendered love. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To procreate; propagate. American Heritage. To be produced; originate. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II.

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