Synonyms for spawn
spɔnspawn

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1. spawnverb

   the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs

2. engender, breed, spawnverb

   call forth

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

3. spawnverb

   lay spawn

   "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"

   Synonyms:
   engender, breed

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. spawnnoun

   Synonyms:
   eggs (of fish or of frogs), hard roe

2. spawnnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Bot.) mycelium, filaments (from which fungi originate)

3. spawnverb

   Synonyms:
   [In contempt.] generate, produce, bring forth

4. spawnverb

   Synonyms:
   [in contempt.] issue

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1. spawnnoun

   Synonyms:
   roe, ova, eggs (of fishes, frogs, etc.), mycelium

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1. List of paraphrases for "spawn":

   hobnob, spawning, breed, spawns, reproduce, spawned

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1. Inga Saffron:

   The difference being they were catching the sturgeon as they were migrating to spawn, not only did they kill the fish, they killed future generations of fish.

2. Alexander Osborn:

   Creative ideas in people's minds, but they fall into the trap of fear or rejection. Create a free judgment Wednesday and you spawn a thread creation.

3. Michael Milstein:

   There are some indications that large numbers of sardines did spawn successfully last year, but we won’t know what difference that makes until those juvenile fish survive for a few more years.

4. Robert King:

   I think we knew [it would spawn conversation], for the most part, you know when you’re not going for a straight, down-the-middle happy ending that there are going to be people who have strong points of view about it.

5. Whitney Way Thore:

   Fat-shaming is a thing ; it's a really big thing, no pun intended, it is the really nasty spawn of a larger parent problem called body-shaming, which I'm fairly certain everyone on the planet, especially women, has experienced.