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Pos: Verb (transitive)
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Verb engender has 2 senses

1.  engender(v = verb.creation) breed, spawn - call forth;
is one way to cause, do, make
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

2.  engender(v = verb.body) beget, bring forth, father, generate, get, mother, sire - make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
is one way to create, make
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

engender, v. t. [F. engender, L. ingenerare; in + generare to beget. See Generate, and cf. Ingenerate.].

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

Syn. -- To breed; generate; procreate; propagate; occasion; call forth; cause; excite; develop.

engender, 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." [1913 Webster]

2.  To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. Massinger. [1913 Webster]


engender, n.

   One who, or that which, engenders. [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

engender, v.tr.
1 give rise to; bring about (a feeling etc.).
2 archaic beget.

Etymology:
ME f. OF engendrer f. L ingenerare (as IN-(2), generare GENERATE)


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Production

VB  produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.