Synonyms of spawns

spawns

verb

present tense third-person singular of spawn

as in creates

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

these artists spawned a whole new movement in painting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creates
• causes
• generates
• brings
• prompts
• produces
• does
• invokes
• works
• induces
• yields
• begets
• engenders
• makes
• catalyzes
• translates (into)
• effects
• breeds
• brings about
• gives rise to
• occasions
• draws on
• brings forth
• results (in)
• encourages
• effectuates
• promotes
• brings on
• introduces
• contributes (to)
• initiates
• launches
• founds
• begins
• establishes
• inaugurates
• starts
• determines
• fosters
• develops
• renders
• conduces (to)
• cultivates
• decides
• fathers
• enacts
• institutes
• furthers
• nourishes
• sets up
• nurtures
• turns out
• sets
• innovates
• advances
• pioneers
• forwards

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• restricts
• limits
• impedes
• suppresses
• controls
• inhibits
• stifles
• squashes
• represses
• kills
• crushes
• subdues
• smothers
• arrests
• dampens
• retards
• reins (in)
• checks
• curbs
• puts down
• restrains
• destroys
• squelches
• quashes
• quells
• cracks down (on)
• clamps down (on)
• abolishes
• extinguishes
• cans
• demolishes
• stills
• liquidates
• quenches
• snuffs (out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of spawns

The average female lionfish spawns around 27,000 eggs every three days, so unsurprisingly, the species quickly spread throughout the Caribbean, up the East Coast and east to the Bahamas. — Rachel Nuwer, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2026

The Lifeform spawns from a black, bacterial mold that infests the yellow wallpaper and moist carpets. — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026

The coupling that El Niño spawns between the atmosphere and the warmer water along the Equator tends to create sinking winds over the Atlantic that disrupt cloud formations that could otherwise become hurricanes. — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 15 May 2026

Hating cops also spawns ridiculous protests, like the ones that called for police to be defunded. — Wendy Murphy, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2026

The energy of the collision spawns many new particles, including—sometimes—W bosons. — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026

But reading the profile of Mohamad Eisa and Yolka Gessen left me with a kind of dread, the kind that comes when a spin-off from a hit show spawns a spin-off of its own, promising/threatening hundreds of new hours of content to keep up with. — Jessa Crispin, Air Mail, 24 Jan. 2026

At the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Nadella sat for a conversation with the Forum’s interim co-chair, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, explaining that if AI growth spawns solely from investment, then that could be signs of a bubble. — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2026

The rare night in Hollywood bringing together movie and TV stars often spawns some of the most intriguing celebrity interactions. — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026