begat

[bih-gat] / bɪˈgæt /

VERB

create, bear

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bring about engender sire

STRONG

afford breed bring cause effect father generate get multiply occasion procreate produce propagate reproduce

WEAK

give rise to progenerate result in

Antonyms

STRONGEST

halt kill stop

STRONG

destroy fail leave

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begat

“Survivor” begat “The Apprentice,” sharing an executive producer in Mark Burnett.

From Salon ● May 31, 2025

Devastation begat devastation, as the ecological dominoes began to fall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

Warring factions within cities and between cities begat more scandals, more corruption.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

But that broken leg also begat the greatest comeback in NFL history and led to one of the gifts Smith gave Washington football fans — a rare Thanksgiving Day win over the Dallas Cowboys.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

In short, the Apple-PC-Windows phase begat the Netscape browsing-e-mail phase, and the two together enabled more people to communicate and interact with more other people anywhere on the planet than ever before.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman