engender

Meaning

Verb

• To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
• To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
• To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
• To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
• To copulate, to have sex.
• To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.

Related

Similar words

• beget, conjure, create, produce, make, craft, manufacture, invent, assemble, generate

Origin

• From Middle French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre, from in- + generāre.
• From en- + gender.