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Spawn

/spˈɑn/
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(verb) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

What might a planet need to spawn life?
Begone, wretched spawn of Hell's unholy bowels!
CEFR Practice Quiz
Each spring, the salmon swim upriver to ____ in the shallow and clear gravel-bedded mountain streams.

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