Beget - meaning and definition. What is Beget
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What (who) is Beget - definition


beget         
(begets, begetting, begot, begotten)
1.
To beget something means to cause it to happen or be created. (FORMAL)
Poverty begets debt...
VERB: V n
2.
When a man begets a child, he becomes the father of that child. (OLD-FASHIONED)
= father
VERB
beget         
v. a.
1.
Generate, procreate, engender, breed, get, be the father of.
2.
Produce, originate, give rise to, lead to, bring about.
beget         
¦ verb (begets, begetting; past begot; past participle begotten) archaic or literary
1. produce (a child).
2. bring about; cause.
Derivatives
begetter noun
Origin
OE begietan 'get, obtain by effort' (see be-, get).

Wikipedia

Beget
To beget means in English 'to sire (a child)', 'to cause or produce'.
Examples of use of Beget
1. Desperate bank managers beget desperate fundraisers.
2. Violence begets violence, good will beget goodwill.
3. He said victory brings confidence, and confidence can beget arrogance.
4. "I truly believe the axiom that lines beget lines.
5. Both eras also illustrate the old maxim that political failures always beget more political failures.