spawn

About 0.88 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

   A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.

2. verb To generate, bring into being, especially nonmammalian beings in very large numbers.
3. verb To bring forth in general.

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

4. verb To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
5. verb To plant with fungal spawn.
6. verb To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
7. verb To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
8. verb 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.

Similar words

breed engender brood kipper frog herring carp oviposit breeding reproduction

Often followed by

in of a and is the at on new

Word family

spawned spawner spawners spawning spawns