ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsEengender
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engender
Meaning: to give rise to or bring about a feeling or condition
engender in a sentence
How engender is used in real sentences:
The coach's constant praise engendered confidence in the young players.
The teacher's patience engendered a genuine love of reading in her students.
“The evidence did not engender triumph in Elias, only grief for a harbor whose outline had been traded away.”
— from the passage The Altered Shore
“When Mara Vale accepted the county's assignment to certify a disputed pasture, she expected the work to engender uneasiness; her grandparents had once farmed the same slope.”
— from the passage The Marker on the Slope
Synonyms for engender
Other words for engender — generate, produce and foster — carry the same meaning.
- generate
- produce
- foster
Antonyms of engender
Words that mean the opposite of engender:
- prevent
- quash
Where it comes from
From Latin ingenerare "to implant, produce"
Word parts
- gen — birth, origin, kind
engender: en- (in, into) + gen (birth, origin; via Latin generare, beget)
Memory hook
EN-GENDER -- to generate something new, like a feeling or idea.