spawn
verb/spɔːn/
/spɔːn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they spawn | /spɔːn/ /spɔːn/ |
| he / she / it spawns | /spɔːnz/ /spɔːnz/ |
| past simple spawned | /spɔːnd/ /spɔːnd/ |
| past participle spawned | /spɔːnd/ /spɔːnd/ |
| -ing form spawning | /ˈspɔːnɪŋ/ /ˈspɔːnɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] spawn (something) (of fish, frogs, etc.) to lay eggs
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- [transitive] spawn something (often disapproving) to cause something to develop or be produced
- The band's album spawned a string of hit singles.
- [intransitive, transitive] (of a character or object in a video game) to appear or be created
- Attackers were spawning from all kinds of unexpected places.
- spawn somebody/something I upgraded the city to spawn a giant.
Word Originlate Middle English: shortening of Anglo-Norman French espaundre ‘to shed roe’, variant of Old French espandre ‘pour out’, from Latin expandere ‘expand’.
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