Dictionary Definition
engender
Verb
2 make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men
often father children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, get, father, mother, sire, generate, bring
forth]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Translations
bring into existence
- Dutch: voortbrengen
- Finnish: synnyttää, luoda, aiheuttaa
stimulate
- Dutch: stimuleren, aanporren
Translations to be checked
- ttbc Indonesian: menyebabkan, mengakibatkan, menimbulkan, membawa
- ttbc Japanese: 引き起こす (hikiokosu), 発生させる (hassei saseru)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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