beget
verb (used with object)
(especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
have begot
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present perfectof beget.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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And now, in 2019, they have begot another special summer: of 50th-anniversary celebrations that are public, elaborate and full of nostalgia.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2019
Thee, eye of heaven! this great Soul envies not; By thy male force is all, we have, begot.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A recital of the particular kinds of these four Idols, with some chosen examples of the opinions they have begot, such of them as have supplanted the state of knowledge most.
From Valerius Terminus; of the interpretation of nature by Francis Bacon
By the provision that's made for me, you might have begot me too.
From Love for Love: a Comedy by William Congreve
He belonged to nobody, only to himself, to the wind and the rain, that seemed to have begot him, and to the grim north, from which he took his other name.
From The Way of the Wild by Harry Rountree
