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engender

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of engender

1 to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

  • a suggestion to go out for pizza that didnʼt seem to engender any interest
Synonyms of engender

beget, breed, bring, bring about, bring on, catalyze, cause, create, do, draw on, effect, effectuate, generate, induce, invoke, make, occasion, produce, prompt, result (in), spawn, translate (into), work, yield
Words Related to engender

conduce (to), contribute (to)

decide, determine

begin, establish, father, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, set, set up, start

advance, cultivate, develop, encourage, forward, foster, further, nourish, nurture, promote

enact, render, turn out
Phrases Synonymous with engender

bring forth, give rise to
Near Antonyms of engender

impede, limit, restrict

clamp down (on), crack down (on), crush, dampen, put down, quash, quell, repress, smother, squash, squelch, stifle, subdue, suppress

arrest, check, control, curb, inhibit, rein (in), restrain, retard

can [slang], kill, snuff (out), still

abolish, demolish, destroy, extinguish, liquidate, quench

2 to come into existence

  • feelings of confidence and independence that were only just beginning to engender within her
Synonyms of engender

actualize, appear, arise, begin, break, commence, dawn, form, materialize, originate, set in, spring, start
Words Related to engender

be, breathe, exist, live, subsist

arrive, come on, emerge

coalesce, cohere, shape (up)

continue, endure, last, persist, survive
Near Antonyms of engender

conclude, desist, discontinue, finish, halt, quit, terminate

disappear, dissolve, evaporate, vanish

depart, die, expire, pass away, perish
Antonyms of engender

cease, end, stop

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