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[ US /ɛnˈdʒɛndɝ, ɪnˈdʒɛndɝ/ ]
[ UK /ɛnd‍ʒˈɛndɐ/ ]
VERB
  1. call forth
  2. 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.
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