Synonyms of beget

beget

verb

bi-ˈget 

1

as in to create

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

one change in the natural environment will beget others

Synonyms & Similar Words

• create
• cause
• generate
• bring
• produce
• prompt
• do
• spawn
• induce
• yield
• invoke
• work
• make
• effectuate
• effect
• engender
• catalyze
• bring about
• draw on
• translate (into)
• result (in)
• give rise to
• encourage
• promote
• introduce
• breed
• found
• bring forth
• bring on
• contribute (to)
• occasion
• establish
• initiate
• inaugurate
• develop
• begin
• foster
• determine
• cultivate
• pioneer
• launch
• decide
• enact
• institute
• start
• render
• conduce (to)
• forward
• nurture
• set up
• further
• father
• innovate
• set
• nourish
• advance
• turn out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• impede
• restrict
• limit
• stifle
• suppress
• subdue
• quash
• quell
• restrain
• dampen
• smother
• repress
• inhibit
• crush
• put down
• control
• check
• kill
• curb
• retard
• arrest
• can
• rein (in)
• squelch
• destroy
• squash
• abolish
• crack down (on)
• extinguish
• clamp down (on)
• still
• liquidate
• quench
• demolish
• snuff (out)

2

as in to produce

to become the father of

the racehorse begot several Kentucky Derby winners

Synonyms & Similar Words

• produce
• sire
• spawn
• reproduce
• father
• get
• generate
• propagate
• multiply
• engender
• procreate
• bear
• gender

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of beget

The episodes are decidedly unflattering and yet undeniably popular; the outrage stirred up by them, as any internet user understands, begets attention that’s ultimately useful to the company. —Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025

With 700 acres that are home to 50 waterfalls, the elevation change on some of its trails is unusual for south Louisiana, but the extra effort begets rewarding views of cascading falls in return. —Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 24 May 2025

Of the Fords, father Ernest, state legislator in the Senate, begat Wendell H., lieutenant governor, governor, and, later, U.S. senator. —Jonathon Sturgeon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025

There’s practically nothing that his Catholic foes, still smarting at the Church of England’s rejection of papal authority, won’t believe about the man who helped engineer the schism so that Henry (Damian Lewis) could divorce his first wife as part of his ongoing quest to beget a male heir. —Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025