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beget

[bih-get]

verb (used with object)

begot , begat, begotten, begot, begetting. .
  1. (especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).

    Synonyms: , , ,
  2. to cause; produce as an effect.

    a belief that power begets power.

    Synonyms: , , ,


beget

/ ɪˈɡɛ /

verb

  1. to father

  2. to cause or create

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • begetter noun
  • ˈٳٱ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of beget1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English begeten ( be-, get ); replacing Middle English biyeten, Old English begetan; cognate with Gothic bigitan, Old High German bigezzan
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of beget1

Old English begietan ; related to Old Saxon bigetan , Old High German pigezzan , Gothic bigitan to find; see be- , get
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“Survivor” begat “The Apprentice,” sharing an executive producer in Mark Burnett.

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Each question begets another, sweeping Macfarlane, his companions and now his readers along on that tide of thought.

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That story begat others, which became the foundation for “Bug Hollow.”

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“Friendship” is a shoulder-to-shoulder activity that begets a face-to-face interaction, preferably not five feet apart.

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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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