Synonyms of spawned

spawned

verb

past tense of spawn

as in created

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

these artists spawned a whole new movement in painting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• created
• caused
• brought
• generated
• prompted
• produced
• did
• yielded
• worked
• invoked
• induced
• engendered
• made
• effected
• catalyzed
• occasioned
• brought about
• brought on
• resulted (in)
• brought forth
• bred
• translated (into)
• introduced
• gave rise to
• begot
• effectuated
• encouraged
• drew on
• promoted
• launched
• inaugurated
• initiated
• founded
• pioneered
• contributed (to)
• developed
• began
• established
• fostered
• started
• instituted
• determined
• decided
• cultivated
• enacted
• rendered
• nurtured
• forwarded
• conduced (to)
• set up
• fathered
• set
• innovated
• furthered
• turned out
• advanced
• nourished

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• limited
• restricted
• impeded
• suppressed
• crushed
• stifled
• controlled
• quashed
• smothered
• checked
• dampened
• inhibited
• repressed
• arrested
• killed
• subdued
• put down
• retarded
• restrained
• destroyed
• curbed
• squashed
• squelched
• quelled
• abolished
• extinguished
• canned
• clamped down (on)
• stilled
• demolished
• liquidated
• cracked down (on)
• reined (in)
• quenched
• snuffed (out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of spawned

Scant evidence for a next-gen, destination IVF business A fertility treatment framed as a way to rewind the biological clock has spawned an international medical tourism business — with precious little evidence to back it up. — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026

The storm formed over the Bay of Bengal, where the warm waters have spawned some of the deadliest cyclones to hit eastern India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. — ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

Today’s IndyCar bosses could use a bit of the creativity that spawned the PPG Pace Cars. — Stephen Edelstein, The Drive, 1 Nov. 2026

The movie was released in 1995, became a cult hit, and spawned sequels Next Friday, released in 2000, and Friday After Next, which came out in 2002. — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026

In laboratory experiments, researchers have put different fungi in incubators and, by steadily raising the temperature, have spawned fungi that are more tolerant to higher heat. — Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 27 Oct. 2026

In Albania, where anger over development in a nature preserve has spawned an antigovernment movement, protesters hurled Molotov cocktails. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 26 Oct. 2026

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon spawned a wave of anti-Muslim harassment and hate crimes. — Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

But the energy crisis spawned by the war has left him grasping for solutions and promising that things will get better. — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026