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spawn - 13 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | spawn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce |
| Synonyms: | create, father, generate, hatch, issue, make, mother, originate, parent, procreate, reproduce, sire, bring forth, give rise to |
| Antonyms: | destroy |
| Main Entry: | create |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop in mind or physically |
| Synonyms: | actualize, author, beget, bring to pass, build, coin, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, design, devise, discover, dream up, effect, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, formulate, found, generate, hatch, imagine, initiate, institute, invent, invest, make, occasion, organize, originate, parent, perform, plan, procreate, produce, rear, set up, shape, sire, spawn, start, bring into being, bring into existence, cause to be, give birth to, give life to |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | egg |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seed, cell; embryo of an animal |
| Synonyms: | bud, cackle*, germ, nucleus, ovum, spawn, cackleberry, oospore, roe, rudiment, yellow eye |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | engender |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to happen; cause an action |
| Synonyms: | arouse, beget, breed, bring about, create, develop, excite, foment, generate, hatch, incite, induce, instigate, make, muster, occasion, precipitate, procreate, produce, propagate, provoke, quicken, rouse, spawn, stimulate, stir, work up, bring forth, give birth to, give rise to, lead to |
| Antonyms: | destroy, finish, halt, kill, stop |
| Main Entry: | father |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sire |
| Synonyms: | beget, conceive, create, dream up, engender, establish, found, generate, invent, originate, procreate, produce, spawn, trigger, sow the seeds of |
| Antonyms: | mother |
| Main Entry: | generate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce, create |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring to pass, cause, develop, effect, engender, form, found, get up, hatch, inaugurate, induce, initiate, institute, introduce, make, multiply, muster, occasion, originate, parent, perform, procreate, propagate, provoke, reproduce, set up, spawn, whip up*, work up, give birth to, give rise to |
| Antonyms: | break, destroy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hatch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, plan |
| Synonyms: | bear, brainstorm*, breed, brood, cause, come up with, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up*, design, devise, dream up*, engender, formulate, generate, get up, incubate, induce, invent, make, make up, occasion, originate, parent, plot, prepare, procreate, produce, project, provoke, scheme, set, sire, spawn, whip up*, work up*, bring forth, give birth, lay eggs, spitball, think up*, throw together, trump up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | offspring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | child, children |
| Synonyms: | baby, brood, cub, descendant, family, generation, heir, heredity, issue, kid*, lineage, offshoot, posterity, produce, progeny, scion, seed, spawn, succession, successor, young, bambino, chip off old block, progeniture, pup |
| Antonyms: | parent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | procreate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reproduce |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, conceive, create, engender, father, generate, get, hatch, impregnate, make, mother, multiply, originate, parent, produce, proliferate, propagate, sire, spawn, give birth to, progenerate |
| Antonyms: | kill |
| Main Entry: | make |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, build |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, adjust, arrange, assemble, beget, brew, bring about, cause, compose, conceive, constitute, construct, cook, cook up*, draw on, dream up, effect, engender, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, generate, hatch, initiate, invent, knock off*, manufacture, mold, occasion, originate, parent, prepare, procreate, produce, put together, secure, shape, spawn, synthesize, whip, dash off, get ready, give rise to, lead to, tear off, throw together, whip out |
| Antonyms: | crush, destroy, raze, ruin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | originate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, introduce |
| Synonyms: | break the ice*, bring about, cause, coin, come up with, compose, conceive, develop, discover, evolve, form, formulate, found, generate, hatch, inaugurate, initiate, institute, invent, launch, make, parent, pioneer, procreate, produce, set up, spark, spawn, start, give birth to, innovate, open up, set in motion, think up, usher in |
| Antonyms: | effect, result |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reproduce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make something new; give birth |
| Synonyms: | bear, beget, breed, engender, father, generate, hatch, impregnate, mother, multiply, procreate, proliferate, propagate, sire, spawn, fecundate, produce young, progenerate, repopulate |
| Antonyms: | abort, kill |
| Main Entry: | seed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | children |
| Synonyms: | brood, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, race, spawn, descendants, heirs, progeniture, scions, successors |
| Notes: | cede means to give over, surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another - while a seed is a small hard fruit or a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat a spore is a lone reproductive cell capable of producing a plant without combining with another cell; a seed develops from sexual recombination of genes from within one plant or two separate plants |
| Antonyms: | ancestor, parent |
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