Dictionary Entry
engender
engender is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
- 2transitive verb
To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
- 3intransitive verb
To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
- 4intransitive verb
To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.
- 5noun
One who, or that which, engenders.
- 6verb
make children
"Abraham begot Isaac"
"Men often father children but don't recognize them"
- 7verb
call forth
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