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beget

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of beget

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

one change in the natural environment will beget others

Synonyms of beget

breed, bring, bring about, bring on, catalyze, cause, create, do, draw on, effect, effectuate, engender, generate, induce, invoke, make, occasion, produce, prompt, result (in), spawn, translate (into), work, yield

Words Related to beget

conduce (to), contribute (to)

decide, determine

begin, establish, father, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, set, set up, start

advance, cultivate, develop, encourage, forward, foster, further, nourish, nurture, promote

enact, render, turn out

Phrases Synonymous with beget

bring forth, give rise to

Near Antonyms of beget

impede, limit, restrict

clamp down (on), crack down (on), crush, dampen, put down, quash, quell, repress, smother, squash, squelch, stifle, subdue, suppress

arrest, check, control, curb, inhibit, rein (in), restrain, retard

can [slang], kill, snuff (out), still

abolish, demolish, destroy, extinguish, liquidate, quench

2 to become the father of

the racehorse begot several Kentucky Derby winners

Synonyms of beget

father, get, sire

Words Related to beget

multiply, procreate, propagate, reproduce, spawn

bear, engender, gender, generate, produce

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