Engender

Verb

 * 1)  To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
 * 2)  To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
 * 3)  To copulate, to have sex.

Verb

 * 1)  To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.

Synonyms for Engender

 * (to bring into existence) beget, conjure, create, produce, make, craft, manufacture, invent, assemble
 * breed, cause, excite, generate, incite, occasion, procreate, reproduce.

Antonyms for Engender
kill, destroy, dampen.

Thesaurus
arouse, author, be fruitful, be productive, bear, beget, birth, breed, breed true, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring to birth, bring to effect, bring to pass, call into being, cause, coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, copulate, create, crossbreed, design, develop, devise, discover, do, dream up, effect, effectuate, establish, evolve, excite, fabricate, father, found, frame, fructify, generate, gestate, get, give being to, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, hatch, improvise, inaugurate, inbreed, induce, institute, invent, make, make do with, make love, make up, mature, mint, mother, multiply, muster up, occasion, originate, outbreed, plan, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate, provoke, pullulate, quicken, realize, reproduce, reproduce in kind, rouse, set afloat, set on foot, set up, sire, spawn, stimulate, stir, strike out, teem, think out, think up, work, work up

Etymology 1
From engendrer:, from  ingenerare:, from in-: + generare:.

Alternative forms

 * ingender

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * Armenian: հարուցել, առաջացնել,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,  donner le jour à,  donner naissance à


 * German:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, ,

Anagrams

 * regenned