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What does beget mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word beget? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To cause; to produce.
  2. To father; to sire; to produce (a child).
  3. (Britain dialectal) To happen to; befall.
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Ideas are supposed to beget ideas in these musical phrases, but all too often orderless complexity begets only numbness of the mind.
Partnerships beget new partnerships, which produce larger effects than any individual group could accomplish on its own.
A man marries in order to establish a household and beget children.
Like a gilded self-fulfilling prophecy, wealth and prestige beget greater wealth and prestige, with dramatic implications for the future of postsecondary education.
With this belief comes the expectation that a booming economy will beget social progress.
Because women beget life, they find it too precious a thing to gamble with.

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