Definition of "engenders" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engender. (verb)

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• "If the Obama administration is intent on proceeding with military commissions and at the same time wants to combat the negative perception the term engenders around the world after nearly nine years of ineptitude and failure then it is essential for it to make a genuine commitment to transparency."
• "It may lack the thumbscrews and ultimate despatch to Dachau or Belsen, but the attitudes and spirit which this sort of activity engenders is precisely that which obtained in Germany under the Nazis or in the former East Germany under Erich Honecker's Communists?"
• "The atmosphere that this stuff engenders is a generally chilling effect on conversation."