spawn as a noun: - 1
as a verb: - 1
- 2
spawn
noun
1 spawn
The mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs.
Roget 167:
posterity,
progeny,
breed,
issue,
offspring,
brood,
litter,
seed,
farrow,
spawn,
spat;
family,
grandchildren,
heirs;
great-grandchild.
child,
son,
daughter;
butcha†;
bantling,
scion;
acrospire†,
plumule†,
shoot,
sprout,
olive-branch,
sprit†,
branch;
off-shoot,
off-set;
ramification;
descendant;
heir,
heiress;
heir-apparent,
heir-presumptive;
chip off the old block;
heredity;
rising generation.
straight descent,
sonship†,
line,
lineage,
filiation†,
primogeniture.
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Roget 653:
uncleanness
etc.
adj.;
impurity;
immundity†,
immundicity†;
impurity
etc.
961
[of mind].
defilement,
contamination
etc.
v.;
defoedation†;
soilure†,
soiliness†;
abomination;
leaven;
taint,
tainture†;
fetor
etc.
401†.
decay;
putrescence,
putrefaction;
corruption;
mold,
must,
mildew,
dry rot,
mucor,
rubigo†.
slovenry†;
slovenliness
etc.
adj.;
squalor.
dowdy,
drab,
slut,
malkin†,
slattern,
sloven,
slammerkin†,
slammock†,
slummock†,
scrub,
draggle-tail,
mudlark†,
dust-man,
sweep;
beast.
dirt,
filth,
soil,
slop;
dust,
cobweb,
flue;
smoke,
soot,
smudge,
smut,
grit,
grime,
raff†;
sossle†,
sozzle†.
sordes†,
dregs,
grounds,
lees;
argol†;
sediment,
settlement heeltap†;
dross,
drossiness†;
mother†,
precipitate,
scoriae,
ashes,
cinders.
recrement†,
slag;
scum,
froth.
hogwash;
ditchwater†,
dishwater,
bilgewater†;
rinsings,
cheeseparings;
sweepings
etc.
(useless refuse)
645;
offscourings†,
outscourings†;
off scum;
caput mortuum [Lat.],
residuum,
sprue,
fecula [Lat.],
clinker,
draff†;
scurf,
scurfiness†;
exuviae [Lat.],
morphea;
fur,
furfur†;
dandruff,
tartar.
riffraff;
vermin,
louse,
flea,
bug,
chinch†.
mud,
mire,
quagmire,
alluvium,
silt,
sludge,
slime,
slush,
slosh,
sposh [U.S.].
spawn,
offal,
gurry [U.S.];
lientery†;
garbage,
carrion;
excreta
etc.
299;
slough,
peccant humor,
pus,
matter,
suppuration,
lienteria†;
faeces,
feces,
excrement,
ordure,
dung,
crap [Vulg.],
shit [Vulg.];
sewage,
sewerage;
muck;
coprolite;
guano,
manure,
compost.
dunghill,
colluvies†,
mixen†,
midden,
bog,
laystall†,
sink,
privy,
jakes;
toilet,
john,
head;
cess†,
cesspool;
sump,
sough,
cloaca,
latrines,
drain,
sewer,
common sewer;
Cloacina;
dust hole.
sty,
pigsty,
lair,
den,
Augean stable†,
sink of corruption;
slum,
rookery.
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Dutch: kikkerdril
Polish: skrzek
verb
1 spawn
2 spawn
Moby thesaurus: albumen, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, brood, call into being, cause, caviar, clutch, coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, create, deposit, design, develop, devise, discover, dream up, drop, egg, egg white, eggshell, engender, evolve, fabricate, farrow, father, fish eggs, frame, fry, generate, get, give being to, give birth to, give rise to, glair, hatch, improvise, invent, lay, litter, make, make do with, make up, mature, mint, nest, originate, ovule, parent, plan, procreate, produce, roe, sire, spat, strike out, think out, think up, vitellus, white, yellow, yield, yolk, young ... show more.
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