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

Slop spawns, and Waymo’s artificially intelligent cars hum into view like two-ton rolling Rorschach tests. — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Molluscum is caused by a virus and spawns the pimple-like bumps. — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 10 Aug. 2026

But the software wrapped around it reinserts the objective on every turn, stores progress to a file, spawns subagents, retries on failure, and keeps going until a verifier says the task is done. — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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 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