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Grammar : Verb
Spell : spawn
Phonetic Transcription : spɔn

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Définition of spawn

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Anglo-French espaundre, Old French espandre "to spread out, pour out," from Latin expandere (see expand). The notion is of a "spreading out" of fish eggs released in water. The meaning "to engender, give rise to" is attested from 1590s. Related: Spawned; spawning.
  • verb produce
Example sentences :
  • Why shrink from us, then, as though we were the spawn of the Evil One?
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • But oh, that a nation which has known a Corneille should ever spawn forth a ——-!
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Any theory accounting for the presence of spawn is, therefore, out of the question.
  • Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
  • The first story of his that I read was "Spawn of the Stars."
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
  • Spawn, why didn't you tell me you were a producer of quicksilver?
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
  • This guard—this Gutierrez, as Spawn had called him—was listening with interest.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
  • Perhaps they migrate to some distant region, where they spawn.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey
  • What made me ever own that spawn of a hungry devil for our own blood!
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of the Sea » by Joseph Conrad
  • Spawn and Perona had bribed the police guards to submit to this attack.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various
  • Spawn strode to her door, and found it fastened on the inside.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various

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