engender
中文来自 ECDICT
- vt.
- 产生，引起
- vi.
- 发生，形成
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词源说明
From Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre.
释义（英文）
动词 Verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). [14th–19th c.]
- (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. [from 14th c.]
- (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex