engender | Definition of engender

Synonyms and Antonyms of engender

1 to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

a suggestion to go out for pizza that didn't seem to engender any interest

Synonyms of engender

beget, breed, bring, bring about, bring on, catalyze, cause, create, do, draw on, effect, effectuate, generate, induce, invoke, make, occasion, produce, prompt, result (in), spawn, translate (into), work, yield

Words Related to engender

conduce (to), contribute (to)

decide, determine

begin, establish, father, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, set, set up, start

advance, cultivate, develop, encourage, forward, foster, further, nourish, nurture, promote

enact, render, turn out

Phrases Synonymous with engender

bring forth, give rise to

Near Antonyms of engender

impede, limit, restrict

clamp down (on), crack down (on), crush, dampen, put down, quash, quell, repress, smother, squash, squelch, stifle, subdue, suppress

arrest, check, control, curb, inhibit, rein (in), restrain, retard

can [slang], kill, snuff (out), still

abolish, demolish, destroy, extinguish, liquidate, quench

2 to come into existence

feelings of confidence and independence that were only just beginning to engender within her

Synonyms of engender

actualize, appear, arise, begin, break, commence, dawn, form, materialize, originate, set in, spring, start

Words Related to engender

be, breathe, exist, live, subsist

arrive, come on, emerge

coalesce, cohere, shape (up)

continue, endure, last, persist, survive

Near Antonyms of engender

conclude, desist, discontinue, finish, halt, quit, terminate

disappear, dissolve, evaporate, vanish

depart, die, expire, pass away, perish

Antonyms of engender

cease, end, stop