Beget

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To father; sire.
  • v. To cause to exist or occur; produce: Violence begets more violence.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cause; to produce.
  • v. To procreate; to father (rarely: to mother); to get with child.
  • v. To happen to; befall.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
  • v. To get (with child.)
  • v. To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To procreate; generate: chiefly used of the father alone, but sometimes of both parents.
  • To produce as an effect; cause to exist; generate; occasion: as, luxury begets vice; “love is begot by fancy,”
  • Synonyms To breed, engender.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make children
  • Antonym
    kill   
    Verb Form
    begat    begets    begetting    begot    begotten   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    create    make   
    Cross Reference
    sire   
    Variant
    begot    begetting    begotten    begat   
    Form
    begot    begat    begotten    begetting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    generate    parent    raised    gender    engender    get    ingender    father    procreate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Annette    Antoinette    Bernadette    Bizet    Bret    Brett    Burnett    Calumet    Chalmette    Chet