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engendrar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • beget verb To father a child, or more broadly, to be the cause or origin of something.
  • breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  • engender verb To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
  • father noun A male parent.
  • spawn verb Of fish, frogs, or other aquatic creatures, to lay eggs in water.

Senses

engendrar is used for these senses in English:

  • beget To cause; to produce; to bring forth.
  • breed To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
  • breed (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated or to grow, like young before birth.
  • father To be a father to; to sire.
  • father To act as a father; to support and nurture.
  • give rise to To be the origin of; to produce; to result in.

breed — full definition

  1. verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  2. verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
  3. verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
  4. noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.

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