0 past simple and past participle of spawn
1 to cause something new, or many new things, to grow or start suddenly:
The spawned hairpins grew and spawned further hairpins in like fashion.
This, in turn, spawned a solitary embolus which passed into the systemic, morphologically right, ventricle and thence into the right coronary artery.
First, equilibrium models of democracy are by design incapable of accounting for the potential dynamism spawned by the deployment of new democratic ideologies.
This experiment examined the potential of three biological control agents to limit adult sciarid emergence within unspawned compost, spawned compost and casing.
In the second experiment, most adult sciarids emerged from spawned compost.
A brief definition of terms is appropriate at this point, since globalization has spawned concepts for interaction which distinguish between the multi-, inter- and transcultural.
This insatiable thirst spawned illicit trade, and as the tributary trade waned, illicit traders replaced licensed merchants as major players in the trade network.
The resultant individualism spawned by the new economy is considered by these countries to be an anathema.
