▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). ▸ verb: (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). ▸ verb: (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. ▸ verb: (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. ▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex. ▸ verb: (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
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