stem fromsomething
phrasal verbwithstemverb[T]uk/stem/us/stem/-mm-
C1
tostartordevelopas theresultof something:
Herproblemsstemfrom herdifficultchildhood.
Theirdisagreementstemmedfrom amisunderstanding.
Origins and sources
- bases
- be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc.idiom
- beginning
- birth
- birthplace
- born
- breeding ground
- emanate from/throughsomething/someone
- fount
- fountainhead
- gateway drug
- genesis
- hail
- originate
- paternity
- provenance
- recipe
- root
- seed
- son