Meaning & use
beget
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To cause or bring about something, especially as a natural consequence; in older usage, to father a child.
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Violence begets more violence in cycles that are hard to break.
In the biblical genealogy, it says that Abraham begat Isaac.
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A formal, somewhat archaic verb now mostly used in the saying "X begets Y" to mean one thing naturally leads to another.
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