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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make (offspring) by reproduction

Example:

John fathered four daughters

Synonyms:

beget; bring forth; engender; father; generate; get; mother; sire

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "engender" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Call forth

Synonyms:

breed; engender; spawn

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "engender" is one way to...):

cause; do; make (give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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 Context examples: 

I had been out, one day, loitering somewhere, in the listless, meditative manner that my way of life engendered, when, turning the corner of a lane near our house, I came upon Mr. Murdstone walking with a gentleman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And he takes, said my mother, with the tears which were engendered in her affectionate nature, stealing down her face, he takes great pains with me; and I ought to be very thankful to him, and very submissive to him even in my thoughts; and when I am not, Peggotty, I worry and condemn myself, and feel doubtful of my own heart, and don't know what to do.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had never doubted his meanness, his craft and malice; but I fully comprehended now, for the first time, what a base, unrelenting, and revengeful spirit, must have been engendered by this early, and this long, suppression.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)