Synonyms of spawning

spawning 1 of 2

noun

as in breeding

Synonyms & Similar Words

• breeding
• procreation
• generation
• begetting
• siring
• conception
• pregnancy
• gestation
• family way
• gravidity

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• infertility
• barrenness

spawning

2 of 2

verb

present participle of spawn

as in creating

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

these artists spawned a whole new movement in painting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creating
• causing
• generating
• bringing
• prompting
• producing
• doing
• working
• inducing
• yielding
• invoking
• breeding
• effecting
• making
• bringing about
• giving rise to
• catalyzing
• begetting
• translating (into)
• resulting (in)
• drawing on
• engendering
• promoting
• occasioning
• introducing
• effectuating
• encouraging
• bringing forth
• bringing on
• launching
• initiating
• contributing (to)
• establishing
• developing
• determining
• founding
• inaugurating
• beginning
• starting
• pioneering
• fostering
• instituting
• cultivating
• deciding
• rendering
• enacting
• nurturing
• advancing
• furthering
• conducing (to)
• setting
• fathering
• forwarding
• innovating
• setting up
• turning out
• nourishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• limiting
• restricting
• impeding
• controlling
• crushing
• suppressing
• checking
• smothering
• stifling
• repressing
• killing
• inhibiting
• subduing
• quashing
• restraining
• arresting
• retarding
• curbing
• dampening
• quelling
• putting down
• destroying
• squashing
• squelching
• extinguishing
• abolishing
• cracking down (on)
• clamping down (on)
• quenching
• liquidating
• demolishing
• canning
• reining (in)
• stilling
• snuffing (out)