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beget
[bih-get]
verb (used with object)
(especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
Synonyms: , , ,to cause; produce as an effect.
a belief that power begets power.
Synonyms: , , ,
beget
/ ɪˈɡɛ /
verb
to father
to cause or create
Other 51Թ Forms
- begetter noun
- ˈٳٱ noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of beget1
Example Sentences
“Survivor” begat “The Apprentice,” sharing an executive producer in Mark Burnett.
Each question begets another, sweeping Macfarlane, his companions and now his readers along on that tide of thought.
That story begat others, which became the foundation for “Bug Hollow.”
“Friendship” is a shoulder-to-shoulder activity that begets a face-to-face interaction, preferably not five feet apart.
Like Leo, it begat a procession of memes solely based on our first glimpse of Jude Law as Pope Pius XIII, the fictional first U.S.-born pontiff, played by a British actor.
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