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spawn
spawn is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 11 senses
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- 1transitive verb
To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
- 2transitive verb
To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.
- 3intransitive verb
To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
- 4intransitive verb
To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
- 5transitive verb
The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.
- 6transitive verb
Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
- 7transitive verb
The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
- 8transitive verb
The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.
- 9noun
the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs
- 10verb
lay spawn
"The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
- 11verb
call forth
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