Synonyms of spawning

spawning 1 of 2

noun

as in breeding

Related Words

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

Dissimilar Words

• 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)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of spawning

Noun

From directors, co-writers and real-life married couple Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer, the feature has taken on a life of its own since social media and the meme-spawning corner of the internet happened upon this intimately made indie. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

Hurricane Isaias made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Saturday, spawning tornadoes, destroying buildings and downing power lines across the Gulf region. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026

This internal pressure eventually forces the microstructure to recrystallize on its own, spawning fresh, dramatically finer grains from within. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026

Goliath grouper spawning season runs from late July through October, while Blue Heron Bridge offers year-round diving and snorkeling. — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2026

My husband landed a cutthroat, and shortly after so did my daughter, a beautiful 20-inch fish painted red with spawning colors, an orange slash on its throat. — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 23 Sep. 2026

Environmentalists say the dam is the last remaining barrier to migratory fish on the Naugatuck River, blocking access to over 32 river miles of spawning habitat. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2026

The Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians monitors water quality for algal blooms and cleans up spawning creeks that get clogged with sediment and trash. — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Although all of the solar system’s planets with atmospheres have wave-spawning disturbances, only Saturn churns them out looking like polygons, geometric shapes bounded by straight lines. — ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026

Verb

The Taurids are known for spawning brilliant fireball meteors, which can flare brighter than Venus as pebble-sized pieces of debris enter and burn up in the atmosphere. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2026

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created one of the most beloved fictional detectives of all time in Sherlock Holmes, spawning countless novels, films, TV series, and so forth featuring the sleuth. — ArsTechnica, 26 Oct. 2026

The popular show took on a life of its own, however, becoming his day job and spawning a Netflix series. — Lily Moayeri, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2026

The area is still going strong with Hurricane Simon and appears on the verge of spawning another one that will really ramp up in strength, Klotzbach said. — CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

This movie was massive, spawning three sequels, a spinoff TV series, and more. — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

The Dutch series, which premiered in 2010, was the first iteration of what would become a global singing-competition franchise, eventually spawning more than 150 adaptations around the world. — Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2026

In 2024 and 2025, the Bureau of Reclamation poured colder water through the dam’s river bypass tubes — a deeper outlet than the hydropower intakes — to prevent smallmouth bass from spawning there. — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2026

The format was part talk show, part first date, and the tone was often flirtatious and awkward, spawning several viral moments over the years. — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2026