Definition of engender

• v. t. - To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
• v. t. - To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
• v. i. - To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
• v. i. - To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.
• n. - One who, or that which, engenders.