BEGET (begat, begetting, begot, begotten)

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Irregular inflected forms: begat    , begetting    , begot    , begotten   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does beget mean? 

• BEGET (verb)
  The verb BEGET has 1 sense:

1. make (offspring) by reproduction

  Familiarity information: BEGET used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEGET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they beget    ... he / she / it begets   
Past simple: begot   
Past participle: begotten   
-ing form: begetting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make (offspring) by reproduction

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

beget; bring forth; engender; father; generate; get; mother; sire

Context example:

John fathered four daughters

Hypernyms (to "beget" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

begetter (a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father))

 Context examples 

“I will tell you,” said Holmes, “and the reason why I tell you is that I hope frankness may beget frankness.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No wonder that a fear of the French power lay deeply in the hearts of the most gallant men, and that fear should, as it always does, beget a bitter and rancorous hatred.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

That wine was not imported among us from foreign countries to supply the want of water or other drinks, but because it was a sort of liquid which made us merry by putting us out of our senses, diverted all melancholy thoughts, begat wild extravagant imaginations in the brain, raised our hopes and banished our fears, suspended every office of reason for a time, and deprived us of the use of our limbs, till we fell into a profound sleep; although it must be confessed, that we always awaked sick and dispirited; and that the use of this liquor filled us with diseases which made our lives uncomfortable and short.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard’s blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One idea only still throbbed life-like within me—a remembrance of God: it begot an unuttered prayer: these words went wandering up and down in my rayless mind, as something that should be whispered, but no energy was found to express them—Be not far from me, for trouble is near: there is none to help.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For, since the conjunction of male and female is founded upon the great law of nature, in order to propagate and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of concupiscence; and that their tenderness towards their young proceeds from the like natural principle: for which reason they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bringing him into the world; which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts, in their love encounters, were otherwise employed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This project could not be of any great expense to the public; and might in my poor opinion, be of much use for the despatch of business, in those countries where senates have any share in the legislative power; beget unanimity, shorten debates, open a few mouths which are now closed, and close many more which are now open; curb the petulancy of the young, and correct the positiveness of the old; rouse the stupid, and damp the pert.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented place that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village—appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short cut from nothing to nothing.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)