Synonyms for engender
ɛnˈdʒɛn dər

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1. engender, breed, spawn(verb)

   call forth

   Synonyms:
   cover, get, mother, father, spawn, multiply, sire, bring forth, breed, beget, generate

2. beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth(verb)

   make children

   "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"

   Synonyms:
   take, cause, make, mystify, experience, develop, draw, have, become, sustain, receive, scram, amaze, stimulate, sire, drive, go, fix, pay back, get under one's skin, stick, suffer, spawn, beat, return, set about, get down, incur, contract, bring forth, grow, dumbfound, fuss, start, arrest, fetch, give, bring, bewilder, mother, induce, buzz off, catch, let, obtain, beget, puzzle, flummox, get, generate, breed, capture, find, baffle, produce, start out, pose, vex, aim, perplex, stupefy, gravel, begin, render, father, commence, arrive, set out, convey, acquire, come, pay off, bugger off, overprotect, yield, nonplus

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. engender

   Synonyms:
   generate, produce, create, breed, propagate

   Antonyms:
   stifle, destroy, extinguish, neutralize, blight, prevent

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. engender(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   generate, beget, procreate, breed

2. engender(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   produce, cause, occasion, give rise to, call forth

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   generate

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1. Paul Jackson:

   The wider benefit of this mine is that you can engender a long-term relationship with China and they will want to take your agricultural goods from the other 1 million hectares of the Liverpool Plains.

2. Fyodor Dostoevsky:

   By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

3. Jeffrey Rosenzweig:

   I think the general consensus is electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment, if they attempt to do that, that's going to engender other challenges.

4. J. Lawton Collins:

   No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

5. Lara Brown:

   I think he has essentially done what he got in the race to do, and now is the best time to leave, if he continues, he will only further engender frustration among Democratic Party officials and all of those individuals who are engaged at the super delegate level. And what he’s now achieving is really only his own desire to finish, and be in a position where he could protest or engage in some form of minority delegate platform negotiation at the convention.

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