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Synonyms and Antonyms of engendering
- a suggestion to go out for pizza that didn't seem to engender any interest
conducing (to), contributing (to)
beginning, establishing, fathering, founding, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, instituting, introducing, launching, pioneering, setting, setting up, starting
advancing, cultivating, developing, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting
impeding, limiting, restricting
clamping down (on), cracking down (on), crushing, dampening, putting down, quashing, quelling, repressing, smothering, squashing, squelching, stifling, subduing, suppressing
arresting, checking, controlling, curbing, inhibiting, reining (in), restraining, retarding
canning [slang], killing, snuffing (out), stilling
abolishing, demolishing, destroying, extinguishing, liquidating, quenching
- feelings of confidence and independence that were only just beginning to engender within her
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