beget
(especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
to cause; produce as an effect: a belief that power begets power.
Origin of beget
1Other words for beget
Other words from beget
- be·get·ter, noun
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How to use beget in a sentence
Meanwhile, accusations of bullying have begotten accusations of counter-bullying.
Media Briefing: Media companies’ DE&I efforts are still falling short | Tim Peterson | May 27, 2021 | DigidayBecause money begets money, billionaires such as Bezos—and even some who are trying a little harder to give it away—struggle to make a dent in their wealth.
MacKenzie Scott Gave Away $6 Billion Last Year. It's Not As Easy As It Sounds | Belinda Luscombe | May 25, 2021 | TimeZoonosis begets reverse zoonosis, which can, in turn, come back around to zoonosis again.
Beware Of Humans | Maggie Koerth (maggie.koerth-baker@fivethirtyeight.com) | April 26, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThis achievement obsession can also beget greed, causing those who are prosperous high achievers to believe they are the elect.
How the Pressure of the Model Minority Myth Restricts Our Imagination—and Our Freedom | Sanjena Sathian | April 9, 2021 | TimeAt least the favorites should have an opportunity to beget some inky foals.
Style Conversational Week 1430: Back in the saddle again | Pat Myers | April 1, 2021 | Washington Post
A society which is willing to accept increasing levels of violence is a society that will beget more of it.
From the Levant to Ferguson to Baltimore, The Most Violent Summer in Years | Gene Robinson | September 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAn interest in fashion also seems to beget an assumption of selfishness and mean-spiritedness.
Michelle Obama and Ann Romney: First Ladies of Style | Robin Givhan | October 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWhile some may say that our exploding obesity epidemic is a hyperbole, fat does beget fat.
This year, however, risk has returned to broadcast television—now will it actually beget innovation?
This year, risk has returned to broadcast television—now will it actually beget innovation?
Marriage will not cure hysteria,—the worst cases are married women, and they beget other hysterics in spreading succession.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyWere it not for the existence of passions no one would build a house, marry a wife, beget children, or do any work.
The tendency of the American system, on the other hand, is to beget a spirit of routine and to check productivity.
But the power of Number, hypostatically existing within it, divided it, and made it beget the manifold.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)Of which soul are these reasons,79 which do not beget the man (though they do beget the animal), then the actualization?
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)
British Dictionary definitions for beget
/ (bɪˈɡɛt) /
to father
to cause or create
Origin of beget
1Derived forms of beget
- begetter, noun
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