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be·get
 beget
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- 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
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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
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related words: |
bear, conceive, engender, lay, mother, work |
adverb + (v.)beget
ago, anyway, both, entirely, ever, hence, more, naturally, often, once, where
(v.)beget
+ noun
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
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derivation: |
begetter (n.) |
The word beget
contains the following part:
be-
Old English
prefix
that means to cover or surround with; to act on or change another.
  More about this word part:
The prefix be-
forms verbs from nouns and verbs.
  Example words:
bedaub, bedazzle, bedeck, bedevil, bedew, bedim, bedizen, befall, befit, befog, befoul, befriend, befuddle, beget, begird, begrime, begrudge, beguile, behold, bejewel, belabor, belie, belong, beloved, bemuse, benighted, berate, beset, besiege, besmear, besmirch, besot, bespangle, bespatter, bespeak, bespectacled, bespread, bestow, bestride, betake, bethink, betide, betray, betroth, bewail, beware, bewilder, bewitch
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