Crossword-Solution: SPAWN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spawn | v. t. | To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do. |
| Spawn | v. t. | To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt. |
| Spawn | v. i. | To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do. |
| Spawn | v. i. | To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously. |
| Spawn | v. t. | The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals. |
| Spawn | v. t. | Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously. |
| Spawn | v. t. | The buds or branches produced from underground stems. |
| Spawn | v. t. | The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPAWN | anagram | PAWNS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with SPAWN (5)
Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain, Ye would send me the spawn of your gutters -- Go! take back your spawn again.
But if thou thinkest the price be fair, -- thy brethren wait to sup, The hound is kin to the jackal-spawn, -- howl, dog, and call them up! And if thou thinkest the price be high, in steer and gear and stack, Give me my father's mare again, and I'll fight my own way back!” Kamal has gripped him by the hand and set him upon his feet.
They be camped not far without the city now.” “My Lord,” said Henry, turning to Simon de Montfort, “be it not time that England were rid of this devil’s spawn and his hellish brood? Though I presume,” he added, a sarcastic sneer upon his lip, “that it may prove embarrassing for My Lord Earl of Leicester to turn upon his companion in arms.” “I owe him nothing,” returned the Earl haughtily, “by his own word.” “You owe him victory at Lewes,” snapped the King.
Restless still, and unsatisfied, he turned toward Africa, and for long years, amid the spawn of the slave-smugglers, sought a new heaven and a new earth.
Dwyer strolled carelessly onward by the banks of the stream, leaving his young companion leaning over the gate in close and interesting parlance with Ellen Heathcote; as he moved on, he half thought, half uttered words to this effect: 'Insolent young spawn of ingratitude and guilt, how long must I submit to be trod upon thus; and yet why should I murmur--his day is even now declining--and if I live a year, I shall see the darkness cover him and his for ever.
Quotes with SPAWN (3)
Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside the box do it not to puff themselves up, but to see how small they really are. As a contented fish in its fish tank appears to have a small, boring existence to us, imagine a larger, more perceptive kingdom (even by scientific taxonomy) to whom our contented existences may appear to be small and b…
To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.
Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods.""Do you?""I believe they are not here, yes. It's a faith of sorts.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 150 times in crossword archives (1959–2025).