[
US
/ɛnˈdʒɛndɝ, ɪnˈdʒɛndɝ/
]
[ UK /ɛndʒˈɛndɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɛndʒˈɛndɐ/ ]
VERB
- call forth
-
make (offspring) by reproduction
Abraham begot Isaac
John fathered four daughters
How To Use engender In A Sentence
- If we heard it once, we heard it a hundred times: the inquiry needed to engender confidence in victims and the public. Times, Sunday Times
- If we heard it once, we heard it a hundred times: the inquiry needed to engender confidence in victims and the public. Times, Sunday Times
- If the venture does fold, your debt to him could engender bad feeling. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
- You cannot suddenly engender selfless commitment when you go on operations. Times, Sunday Times
- The plant has spawned human fatalities and engendered the strange fauna and flora found on the eerie headland where the derelict buildings remain. Times, Sunday Times
- Specific historical moments usually engender the chain of events that shape and reshape an international song.
- Negative feelings are engendered when patients try to get effective treatment - only to be disappointed. Times, Sunday Times
- Seeing lines of big 4x4s with horse boxes attached lining country lanes can engender a feeling of resentment that the rich are having their sport while ignoring the locals.
- The brutally direct communications engendered by youthful, student audiences tend to endear them to dancers.
- The deadlock also reflected the general feeling of uncertainty on the international stage engendered by events in the Soviet Union during August.