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be·get

beget

 
pronunciation:
b get
features:
Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
part of speech: transitive verb
inflections: begets, begetting, begot, begotten
definition 1: to generate (offspring); cause to begin life, esp. to father.
The king begot two daughters before begetting a son.
synonyms:
engender, father, generate, procreate, sire
similar words:
breed, create, produce, propagate, spawn
definition 2: to produce or cause.
Poverty often begets crime.
synonyms:
breed, create, engender, generate, give rise to, lead to, spawn
similar words:
cause, occasion, procreate, produce, yield
Word Combinations  About this feature
adverb + (v.)beget ago, anyway, both, entirely, ever, hence, more, naturally, often, once, where
(v.)beget + nounHelp advertising, age, art, atrocity, audience, birth, business, buying, cheeriness, child, commitment, community, concept, conviction, cooperation, countermeasure, debris, decline, disease, dollar, doubt, driver, economy, energy, evil, exception, execution, exposure, extremism, face, failure, fantasy, fat, father, food, formation, generation, generosity, gift, goodwill, grief, growth, heir, hostility, housing, hunger, hypnosis, idea, increase, independence, interdependence, invention, kingdom, knowledge, law, lie, life, love, management, mark, medicine, mind, money, monster, moratorium, music, name, necessity, news, offspring, one, others, owner, pair, parent, peace, photon, plastic, politician, population, poverty, power, pressure, price, pride, process, quality, question, reading, reason, regulation, retailer, revenge, revenue, riches, risk, selling, sequel, sleep, son, spirit, star, steelhead, success, summer, sympathy, talent, thought, vengeance, view, violence, wife, will, wonder, word, writing [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivation: begetter (n.)
Word Parts  About this feature
The word beget contains the following part:
be- Old English prefix that means to cover or surround with; to act on or change another.
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The prefix be- forms verbs from nouns and verbs.