beget

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: be=get

CIDE DICTIONARY

beget, v. t. [OE. bigiten, bigeten, to get, beget, AS. begitan to get; pref. be- + gitan. See Get, v. t. ].

•  To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.  [1913 Webster]

  "Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget."  [1913 Webster]
•  To get (with child.)  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.  [1913 Webster]

  "Love is begot by fancy."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

beget, v.tr. (begetting; past begot; archaic begat; past part. begotten) literary 1 (usu. of a father, sometimes of a father and mother) procreate.
2 give rise to; cause (beget strife).

Derivative

begetter n.

Etymology

OE begietan, formed as BE- + GET = procreate

THESAURUS

beget

author, be fruitful, be productive, bear, birth, breed, breed true, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring to birth, bring to effect, bring to pass, call into being, cause, coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, copulate, create, crossbreed, design, develop, devise, discover, do, dream up, effect, effectuate, engender, establish, evolve, fabricate, father, found, frame, fructify, generate, gestate, get, give being to, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, hatch, improvise, inaugurate, inbreed, institute, invent, make, make do with, make love, make up, mature, mint, mother, multiply, occasion, originate, outbreed, plan, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate, pullulate, realize, reproduce, reproduce in kind, set afloat, set on foot, set up, sire, spawn, strike out, teem, think out, think up, work

ROGET THESAURUS

beget

Production

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.