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порожда́ть — meaning in English

porozhdat

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English meaning

  • beget verb To father a child, or more broadly, to be the cause or origin of something.
  • engender verb To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
  • generate verb To produce or create something, especially as an effect or output.
  • innate adj Present from birth; natural rather than learned.
  • originate verb To come into existence, or to have a particular starting point.
  • procreate verb To produce offspring; to reproduce.
  • reproduce verb To make a copy of something, such as an image, document, or sound.
  • spawn verb Of fish, frogs, or other aquatic creatures, to lay eggs in water.

Senses

порожда́ть is used for these senses in English:

  • beget To cause; to produce; to bring forth.
  • generate (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
  • generate (transitive) To procreate, beget.
  • give birth (transitive, with to, of viviparous animals) To become the parent of by birthing.
  • give rise to To be the origin of; to produce; to result in.
  • innate (obsolete) To cause to exist; to call into being.
  • originate (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to be; to bring (someone or something) into existence; to produce or initiate a person or thing. [from 17th c.]
  • originate (intransitive) To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with). [from 18th c.]

engender — full definition

  1. verb To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
  2. verb To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
  3. verb To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
  4. verb To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.

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