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beget Definition


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beget
verb begot (past tense), begat, begotten (past participle), begetting (present participle)
    1. rather formal
      To cause; to give rise to something.
      Example: Envy begets strife
      Thesaurus: propagate, father, sire, generate, breed, procreate, produce, spawn, create, engender.
    2. Especially in the Authorized Version of the Bible: to be the father of someone.
      Example: Abraham begat Isaac
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon begietan in the sense ‘to acquire' or ‘get'.



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