beget
pronunciation
How to pronounce beget in British English:
UK [bɪˈɡet]
How to pronounce beget in American English:
US [bɪˈɡet]
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- Verb:
- make children
Word Origin
- beget (v.)
- Old English begietan "to get by effort, find, acquire, attain, seize" (class V strong verb, past tense begeat, past participle begeaton), from be- + get (v.). Sense of "to procreate" is from c. 1200. Related to Old High German pigezzan, Gothic bigitan "to get, obtain." Related: Begot; begotten.
Example
- 1. Credit busts often beget recessions .
- 2. Victories , however narrow , beget overreaching ambition .
- 3. Sometimes crises beget bold leadership .
- 4. The too-big-to-fail institutions that populated pre-crisis banking were the opposite of what free markets should beget .
- 5. The modernisation hypothesis suggested a particular direction of change : more education and income should beget greater democracy .