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 didn't seem to engender any interest
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
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
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
actualize, appear, arise, begin, break, commence, dawn, form, materialize, originate, set in, spring, start
be, breathe, exist, live, subsist
arrive, come on, emerge
coalesce, cohere, shape (up)
continue, endure, last, persist, survive
conclude, desist, discontinue, finish, halt, quit, terminate
disappear, dissolve, evaporate, vanish
depart, die, expire, pass away, perish
