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Past tense of engender

regular verb

The past tense of engender is engendered. The past participle is also engendered.

Forms of engender

Base form (V1)engender /ɪnˈdʒɛn.də/
Past tense (V2)engendered
Past participle (V3)engendered
Present participleengendering
Third person singularengenders

Engendered in a sentence

  • It's also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things.2009 December 21, Jonathan Glancey, “The art of industry”, in The Guardian
  • As such they are an important way of understanding both how texts are engendered (how they articulate particular sex or gender role) and how they engender their consumers.1992, Anne Cranny-Francis, Engendered Fictions, page 2
  • The term 'ataraxia' is used in Epicurean philosophy to refer to a type of katastematic pleasure that is engendered by a complete freedom from mental disturbances and worries.From the entry katastematic
  • This improvisatory element engendered a vibrant, appealingly unstagey quality of performance.2009 March 31, The New York Times, “Dance in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry unstagey
  • These two specific guys don't deserve the rage a lifeful of such remarks, “ignored,” have engendered.1989, Jane Masbridge, “Toward the Next Millennium: No More Than a Matter of Simple Equal Rights”, in The Utne Reader, numbers 34-36, page 48. From the entry lifeful

Meaning of engender

  1. verb To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
  2. verb To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
  3. verb To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.

Full definition of engender

Questions about the past tense of engender

What is the past tense of engender?
The past tense of engender is engendered.
What is the past participle of engender?
The past participle of engender is engendered.
Is engender a regular or irregular verb?
Engender is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: engender (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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