Sekirov Dictionary

spawn

/spɔːn/

verb 10
noun 6
forms 4

verb10

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To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
- A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.
To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
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To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
- Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn. — 2014
To generate, bring into being, especially nonmammalian beings in very large numbers.
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To bring forth in general.
- The web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
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To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.
- We put down torches to stop creepers from spawning.
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(Internet, figurative) To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, unexpectedly and seemingly out of nowhere.
- Where did he come from? Bro just spawned in.
To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
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(Internet, figurative) Of a person or non-egglaying animal: to be born.
- That kid just spawned and looks like he's already done with life.
To plant with fungal spawn.

noun6

The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
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Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.
- This dreadful idea is the spawn of a large business conglomerate.
The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
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Children; offspring.
- Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man. — 2012
Synonym of spawn point.

forms

spawned · spawning · spawneth · spawns

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