beget
verb (used with object)
(especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
was begetting
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past progressiveof beget.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort — and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2013
I was a father and a begetter of children, and oh, oh horror, I was begetting and conceiving in my own body.
From Look! We Have Come Through! by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Of course an itch to lay hands on the theatre was begetting restlessness in the American bosom considerably prior to April 6, 1917.
From Nonsenseorship by Putnam, G. G.
And how I despised the monotony and lowness of the Martian life; how I loathed the spreading misery of the famine, and the vile and dreadful pestilences which it was begetting!
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth
