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spawn

verb
🔊/spɔːn/
🔊/spɔːn/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they spawn
🔊/spɔːn/
🔊/spɔːn/
he / she / it spawns
🔊/spɔːnz/
🔊/spɔːnz/
past simple spawned
🔊/spɔːnd/
🔊/spɔːnd/
past participle spawned
🔊/spɔːnd/
🔊/spɔːnd/
-ing form spawning
🔊/ˈspɔːnɪŋ/
🔊/ˈspɔːnɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive, transitive] spawn (something) (of fish, frogs, etc.鱼、蛙等) to lay eggs产卵
  2. [transitive] spawn something (often disapproving) to cause something to develop or be produced引发；引起；导致；造成
    • The band's album spawned a string of hit singles.这支乐队的专辑带出一连串走红的单曲。🔊🔊
    Topics Change, cause and effectc2
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: shortening of Anglo-Norman French espaundre ‘to shed roe’, variant of Old French espandre ‘pour out’, from Latin expandere ‘expand’.

spawn

noun
🔊/spɔːn/
🔊/spɔːn/
 [uncountable]
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  1. a soft substance containing the eggs of fish, frogs etc.（鱼、蛙等的）卵 see also frogspawnTopics Fish and shellfishc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionarySpawn is used after these nouns:
    • frog
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    Word Originlate Middle English: shortening of Anglo-Norman French espaundre ‘to shed roe’, variant of Old French espandre ‘pour out’, from Latin expandere ‘expand’.