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verb
To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: father, give birth, mother, sire
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: birth, spawn
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: assemble, beget, conjure, craft, create, generate, invent, make, manufacture, produce, bring forth, cause, contrive, ferment, forge, develop, engender, evolve, gin up, innate, form, forthbring, spawn, abet, actuate, goose, fuel, light a fire under, send, sting, bring about, cheer, draw, drive, encourage, egg on, evoke, excite, foment, goad, grill, ignite, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, invoke, lash, motive, motivate, move, obligate, oblige, push, promote, prompt, provoke, rouse, set off, spark off, spur, spur on, stimulate, stir, stir up, stoke, tempt, urge, whet, whip up
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: materialize, take form, appear, arise, be born, become, rise, come into being, emerge, engender, form, get up, inform, originate, pop up, spring, spring to life, spring up, surface, take shape, upspring
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To copulate, to have sex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: do it, get it on, have sex, approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh, have intimate relations, have marital relations, have sexual relations, intercourse, know, know someone in the biblical sense, make love, mate, share a bed, sleep together, strain, bang, bauf, beat, bone, boff, boink, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, clap cheeks, dance, discuss Uganda, dip one's pen in someone's inkwell, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, expletive deleted, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get busy, get down, get freaky, get it, get jiggy, get laid, get lucky, get one's dick wet, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, get the dirty water off one's chest, graft the forked tree, go all the way, haul one's ashes, have it away, have it off, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hide the wienie, hike the Appalachian Trail, hook up, hump, jig-jig, knock boots, lay pipe, lay the pipe, make it, make out, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, meddle, ming, Netflix and chill, penetrate, pipe, pipe down, play, play hide the sausage, pound, rail, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, screw, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, shaboink, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, stick, tumble
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: critical theory
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
make children
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: beget, get, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: make, create
verb
call forth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: breed, spawn
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cause, do, make
History
From Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English gender English engender From en- + gender.
Across languages
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
