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/spɔːn/
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- Received-Pronunciation
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/spɔn/
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/spɑn/
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- cot-caught-merger
Verbo
To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
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A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.
To generate, bring into being, especially nonmammalian beings in very large numbers.
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To bring forth in general.
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The web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
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Weather Underground, a covert organization that spawned countless other would-be revolutionary cadres - the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), the Black Liberation Army, the May 19 Communist Organization each of which
To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
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To plant with fungal spawn.
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To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
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Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.
To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
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To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.
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We put down torches to stop creepers from spawning.
To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, unexpectedly and seemingly out of nowhere.
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Where did he come from? Bro just spawned in.
Mavs fans really be spawning out of nowhere.
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So many virgos have spawned in my life lately
I swear a new vtuber with 250,000 subscribers and wildly transphobic views just spawns every other fucking week
rizz so strong the bf just spawned out of nowhere
bro jus spawns in when the word cuck is mentioned
God spawning in a new streamer and fans for him every week:
McDonalds skips the whole process and just spawns a new building somewhere
Of a person or non-egglaying animal: to be born.
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- figurato
- scherzoso
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That kid just spawned and looks like he's already done with life.
I spawned in Turkey. I wasn't given an option on difficulty. It was automatically set on the hardest.
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Oh he is entirely too smol! Just spawned and already running a drug ring!! ❤️
dude literally just spawned and already gave up
Sostantivo
The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
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Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
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Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.
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This dreadful idea is the spawn of a large business conglomerate.
Any germ or seed, even a figurative source. Children; offspring.
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- spregiativo
- often
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Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.
The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
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Synonym of spawn point.
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the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs
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Verbo
call forth
lay spawn
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The salmon swims upstream to spawn