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.
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v. make children
Word Usage
"Somehow bad calls beget bad calls, and even though this group was selected for their experience after a particularly poor playoff thus far by the men in blue, they couldn't work more than one solid game in a row without screwing up royally in Game 2."