Synonyms of begets

begets

verb

present tense third-person singular of beget

1

as in creates

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

one change in the natural environment will beget others

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creates
• causes
• generates
• brings
• prompts
• produces
• does
• spawns
• induces
• yields
• invokes
• works
• engenders
• catalyzes
• makes
• brings about
• breeds
• effects
• brings forth
• gives rise to
• draws on
• translates (into)
• effectuates
• encourages
• results (in)
• promotes
• occasions
• brings on
• introduces
• contributes (to)
• initiates
• establishes
• fosters
• inaugurates
• begins
• founds
• determines
• develops
• cultivates
• fathers
• launches
• starts
• conduces (to)
• nourishes
• institutes
• decides
• renders
• enacts
• furthers
• nurtures
• sets up
• innovates
• turns out
• advances
• sets
• pioneers
• forwards

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• restricts
• impedes
• limits
• suppresses
• stifles
• inhibits
• dampens
• subdues
• represses
• smothers
• controls
• arrests
• crushes
• restrains
• squashes
• kills
• reins (in)
• retards
• curbs
• checks
• puts down
• destroys
• squelches
• quells
• quashes
• abolishes
• extinguishes
• cracks down (on)
• clamps down (on)
• quenches
• cans
• stills
• liquidates
• demolishes
• snuffs (out)

2

as in produces

to become the father of

the racehorse begot several Kentucky Derby winners

Synonyms & Similar Words

• produces
• spawns
• fathers
• sires
• gets
• reproduces
• generates
• propagates
• multiplies
• engenders
• procreates
• bears
• genders

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of begets

Clandestine action begets retribution, which begets chaos — the only status quo Central Intelligence has ever known. — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2026

If interest begets debt, and debt begets interest, eventually debt will spin out of control. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026

Pasteur’s experiment implied that being alive is hereditary—life, not not-life, begets life. — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026

Constant vigilance against the presence of AI inevitably begets cynicism and threatens to corrode the teacher-student relationship that is at the heart of education. — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

That’s because success begets imitators eager to compete away profits. — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Distance begets latency; each kilometer of satellite separation adds more microseconds of latency, and those microseconds matter. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026

But one of the hardest yet most common lessons investors learn is that strength often begets more strength. — Jay Woods, CNBC, 4 June 2026

And rhetoric, it could be said, begets more rhetoric. — Robin Wright, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026