Antonyms for beget
bɪˈgɛtbeget

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1. beget

   Antonyms:
   annihilate, banish, destroy, eradicate, expel, exterminate, extirpate, overthrow, remove, root out, uproot, wipe out

   Synonyms:
   augment, breed, build up, cherish, colonize, develop, foster, increase, plant, populate, propagate, replenish, settle

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1. beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forthverb

   make children

   "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"

   Synonyms:
   take, cause, make, mystify, experience, develop, draw, have, become, sustain, receive, scram, amaze, stimulate, sire, drive, engender, go, fix, pay back, get under one's skin, stick, suffer, spawn, beat, return, set about, get down, incur, contract, bring forth, grow, dumbfound, fuss, start, arrest, fetch, give, bring, bewilder, mother, induce, buzz off, catch, let, obtain, puzzle, flummox, get, generate, breed, capture, find, baffle, produce, start out, pose, vex, aim, perplex, stupefy, gravel, begin, render, father, commence, arrive, set out, convey, acquire, come, pay off, bugger off, overprotect, yield, nonplus

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1. begetverb

   Synonyms:
   procreate, engender, generate, get

How to use beget in a sentence?

1. Aaron Klein:

   Bailouts beget bailouts, it’s difficult, once you start down the path of bailing people out, to switch course.

2. Bertrand de Jouvenal:

   A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

3. Riverside County:

   Terrorism should not beget terrorism and that's what this would be if in fact there was someone who threw a device in this mosque with the intention of destroying the mosque or hurting the people inside who were praying.

4. Siddharth Astir:

   Talent is like a stream....when pertinently channelised it can beget the unimaginable , however when unguided ,it can lead to a catastrophe

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