Spawn - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |spɔːn|  American pronunciation of the word spawn
Brit.  |spɔːn|  British pronunciation of the word spawn

noun

- the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs

verb

- call forth (syn: breed, engender)
- lay spawn
The salmon swims upstream to spawn

Extra examples

The health-food craze spawned a multimillion-dollar industry.

Pacific salmon return to Alaskan streams to deposit their spawn.

...sometimes I think those little brats are the spawn of Satan himself...

The general atmospheric conditions in which hurricanes are spawned are known.

New technology has spawned new business opportunities.

The salmon swims upstream to spawn

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: spawn
he/she/it: spawns
present participle: spawning
past tense: spawned
past participle: spawned
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