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verb (used with object), be·got or (Archaic) be·gat; be·got·ten or be·got; be·get·ting.
1.
(especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
2.
to cause; produce as an effect: a belief that power begets power.
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Beget
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Example Sentences
- The movie wants to illustrate how lies beget lies until there's no turning back, and it succeeds but only in a diagrammatic way.
- Victories, however narrow, beget overreaching ambition.
- Proteins burned to a crisp beget mutagens, gene-damaging chemicals that have caused cancer in laboratory animals.
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