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Beget

Beget Meaning & Definition
Beget Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Beget?

[v] make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Beget: bring forth | engender | father | generate | get | mother | sire

Related Terms | Find terms related to Beget: author | be fruitful | be productive | bear | birth | breed | breed true | bring about | bring forth | bring into being | bring to birth | bring to effect | bring to pass | call into being | cause | coin | conceive | concoct | contrive | cook up | copulate | create | crossbreed | design | develop | devise | discover | do | dream up | effect | effectuate | engender | establish | evolve | fabricate | father | found | frame | fructify | generate | gestate | get | give being to | give birth to | give occasion to | give origin to | give rise to | hatch | improvise | inaugurate | inbreed | institute | invent | make | make do with | make love | make up | mature | mint | mother | multiply | occasion | originate | outbreed | plan | procreate | produce | proliferate | propagate | pullulate | realize | reproduce | reproduce in kind | set afloat | set on foot | set up | sire | spawn | strike out | teem | think out | think up | work

See Also | create | make

Beget In Webster's Dictionary

\Be*get"\, v. t. [imp. {Begot}, (Archaic) {Begat}; p. p. {Begot}, {Begotten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Begetting}.] [OE. bigiten, bigeten, to get, beget, AS. begitan to get; pref. be- + gitan. See {Get}, v. t. ] 1. To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. --Milton. 2. To get (with child.) [Obs.] --Shak. 3. To produce as an effect; to cause to exist. Love is begot by fancy. --Granville.

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