英语词汇“spawn”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

verb | noun

spawnspawn1 /spɔn/ verb

ETYMOLOGYspawn¹

Origin: 1400-1500 Anglo-French espaundre, from Old French espandre to spread out, from Latin expandere; ➔ EXPAND

VERB TABLE

spawn

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	spawn
	he, she, it	spawns
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	spawned
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have spawned
	he, she, it	has spawned
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had spawned
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will spawn
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have spawned

Continuous Form
Present	I	am spawning
	he, she, it	is spawning
	you, we, they	are spawning
Past	I, he, she, it	was spawning
	you, we, they	were spawning
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been spawning
	he, she, it	has been spawning
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been spawning
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be spawning
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been spawning

1[intransitive, transitive] science, biology if a fish or frog spawns it produces eggs in large quantities at the same time2[transitive] to make something happen or start to exist, especially a large number of things: The book has spawned several movies.