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Language: Old English
Origin: begietan

beget

 verb
     
be‧get past tense begot past participle begotten present participle begetting [transitive]
1 old use to become the father of a child
2 to cause something or make it happen:
Hunger begets crime.
—begetter noun [countable]
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