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engender | |
1. v. (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). | |
2. v. To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). | |
3. v. To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. | |
5. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex. | |
6. v. (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender. | |