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Another word for spawn

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Verb

  1. To produce sexually or asexually others of one's kind

      1. To cause to reproduce; raise, esp. by controlled mating
      2. To develop (a stock or certain characteristics in it) by such mating or pollination
      3. To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection:
      1. To make greater or larger.
      2. To multiply; reproduce.
      3. To cause to become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; add to; augment
      1. (Math.) To find the product of by multiplication
      2. To grow in amount, number, or degree:
      3. To increase in number, amount, extent, or degree; specif., to increase by procreation
      1. To originate, create or produce something.
      2. To produce (offspring); reproduce.
      3. To produce or bring into existence
      1. To increase or spread at a rapid rate:
      2. To cause to grow or increase rapidly.
      3. To multiply rapidly; increase profusely
      1. To cause (a plant or animal) to reproduce itself; raise or breed
      2. To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.
      3. To cause to extend to a broader area or larger number; spread:
      1. To produce by generation or propagation; bring forth one or more other individuals of (the kind or species) by sexual or asexual processes
      2. To generate offspring by sexual or asexual means.
      3. To produce offspring; bring forth others of its kind
    See also:

    reproduction

  2. To cause to come into existence

      1. To cause to exist or occur; produce:
      2. To produce (offspring) by sexual reproduction. Used especially of a man.
      3. To bring into being; produce
      1. To rear or train; bring up:
      2. To produce (offspring); give birth to or hatch.
      3. To bring up, train, or educate
      1. To give rise to; produce:
      2. To produce through artistic or imaginative effort:
      3. To cause to come into existence; bring into being; make; originate; esp., to make or design (something requiring art, skill, invention, etc.)
      1. (Critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender. [from 20th c.]
      2. To bring into existence; give rise to:
      3. To bring into being; bring about; cause; produce
      1. To act or serve as a father to (a child).
      2. To provide the sperm that unites with an egg to produce (an embryo, fetus, or child).
      3. To look after or care for as a father does
      1. To bring forth (young) from an egg or eggs by applying warmth
      2. To emerge from or break out of an egg.
      3. To bring (a plan, idea, etc.) into existence; esp., to plan in a secret or underhanded way; plot
      1. To rise or accumulate:
      2. To achieve, produce, or attain:
      3. To draw up and execute in a suitable form:
      1. To come into being; begin; start
      2. To bring into being; create or start:
      3. To bring into being; esp., to create (something original); invent
      1. To act as a parent to; raise and nurture:
      2. To cause to come into existence; originate.
      1. To produce (offspring); reproduce.
      2. To produce or bring into existence
      3. To originate, create or produce something.
      1. To get (a play, film, TV program, etc.) ready for presentation to the public
      2. To make or yield products or a product:
      3. To make or manufacture
      1. To beget
      2. To be the male individual or gamete producing (an animal's offspring or a plant's seed) through sexual reproduction:
      3. To be the biological father of (a child).
    Idioms:
    See also:

    make

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Another word for spawn

Verb
      1. To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process:
      2. (Linguistics) In generative grammar, to construct (a sentence, for example) through the successive application of linguistic operations, rules, and conditions.
      3. (Geom.) To trace out or form ( a curve, plane, or figure) by the motion of a point, line, or plane
      1. To create, generate, bring into existence.
      2. To give birth.
      3. To display, produce, bring out for display.
      1. To print or publish; put forth and circulate; give out publicly or officially
      2. To be derived or result (from a cause)
      3. To proceed from a source; emerge or come forth:
    See also:

    produce

    reproduce

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Sentence Examples

  • The spawn of the angler is very remarkable.

  • Dean crossed his fingers and hoped this affiance would spawn fewer complications than the last.

  • The breeding season lasts throughout spring and summer, and the female is able to spawn two, three or even four times in the year.

  • The mycelium produced from the spores dropped by the fungus or from the "spawn" in the soil, radiates outwards, and each year's successive crop of fungi rises from the new growth round the circle.

  • In about ten days, when the mass is milkwarm, the bed will be ready for spawning, which consists of inserting small pieces of spawn bricks into the sloping sides of the bed, about 6 in.

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