Antonyms for engender

Grammar : Verb

Spell : en-jen-der

Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈdʒɛn dər

Definition of engender

Origin : early 14c., "beget, procreate," from Old French engendrer (12c.) "engender, beget, bear; cause, bring about," from Latin ingenerare "to implant, engender, produce," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + generare "beget, create" (see generation). Meaning "cause, produce" is mid-14c. Related: Engendered; engendering.

verb cause to happen; cause an action

Example sentences :

Youth demands its share in every study that can engender a power or a delight.
Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper

Man is made for society and not for solitude, and solitude can only engender despair.
Extract from : « In Search of the Castaways » by Jules Verne

As I told Weener, if you create a capacity, you engender an appetite.
Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore

It usually applies to a strong current, apt to engender a sort of vortex.
Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth

It was impossible that the place should not engender some thought of the kind.
Extract from : « A Struggle For Life » by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Is not faith, blind faith, preferable to endowments which engender doubt?
Extract from : « The Weird Orient » by Henry Iliowizi

Our disgust with society does not engender convictions in us.
Extract from : « Paris and the Social Revolution » by Alvan Francis Sanborn

All are more or less calculated to engender disease and filth.
Extract from : « The Sanitary Evolution of London » by Henry Lorenzo Jephson

I have noticed that they engender feelings of bitterness and seldom do good.
Extract from : « Memoirs of John R. Young » by John Young

Most men are led away by the indulgence of their appetites, which engender sin.
Extract from : « The Rights of War and Peace » by Hugo Grotius

Synonyms for engender

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