Meaning

(transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
2. (transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially nonmammalian beings in very large numbers.
3. (transitive) To bring forth in general.
4. (transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
5. (transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
6. (intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
7. (intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
8. (ergative, video games) To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.

Example Sentences

A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.

The web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.

Weather Underground, a covert organization that spawned countless other would-be revolutionary cadres - the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), the Black Liberation Army, the May 19 Communist Organization each of which

Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.

We put down torches to stop creepers from spawning.

Where did he come from? Bro just spawned in.

Mavs fans really be spawning out of nowhere.

So many virgos have spawned in my life lately

Word Forms

• spawns
• spawning
• spawned
• spawn

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