engender
/ɛnˈdʒɛn.də/ · verb
Meaning
- To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
- To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
- To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
- To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
- To copulate, to have sex.
- (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
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