noun one who, or that which, engenders.
2. engender ·vi to come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.
3. engender ·vi to assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
4. engender ·vt to produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
5. engender ·vt to cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.