Engender: Definition and part of speech

Engender

  1. n. One who, or that which, engenders.
  2. v. t. To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
  3. v. t. To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
  4. v. i. To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
  5. v. i. To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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