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    spawn
    [spôn]
    verb
    spawning (present participle)
    1. (of a fish, frog, mollusk, crustacean, etc.) release or deposit eggs:
      "the fish spawn among fine-leaved plants" · "a large brood is spawned"
      • (be spawned)
        (of a fish, frog, etc.) be laid as eggs:
        "the fish can locate the precise stream in which they were spawned"
      • (of a character or object in a video game) appear at a certain point in the game:
        "then they enter the undead land where defenders will spawn to fight against them" · "players can spawn a ghost ship to confuse foes"
    2. derogatory
      (of a person) produce (offspring):
      "why had she married a man who could spawn a boy like that?"
      • produce or generate, especially in large numbers:
        "the decade spawned a bewildering variety of books on the forces"
      • computing
        generate (a dependent or subordinate computer process).
    Origin
    late Middle English: shortening of Anglo-Norman French espaundre ‘to shed roe’, variant of Old French espandre ‘pour out’, from Latin expandere ‘expand’.
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