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单词 begotten
释义

begotten

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be·​got·​ten bi-ˈgä-tᵊn How to pronounce begotten (audio)
bē-

past participle of beget

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. George Eliot
This small, austerely decorated restaurant on the unfashionable end of Melrose Avenue has begotten a second establishment … Jean T. Barrett

begotten

2 of 2

adjective

: brought into existence by or as if by a parent
"He didn't send his only begotten son through a whirlwind …" Jesse Jackson
… she was also a self-absorbed alcoholic with a penchant for promiscuous infidelity and scant interest in such minor matters as her only begotten child. Deborah Orr
see also misbegotten, ill-begotten

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

14th century, in the meaning defined above

begotten

verb

variants or begot
past participle of beget
1
as in induced
to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) one change in the natural environment will beget others

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • induced
  • created
  • produced
  • caused
  • brought
  • effected
  • generated
  • wrought
  • made
  • yielded
  • invoked
  • engendered
  • worked
  • bred
  • spawned
  • occasioned
  • catalyzed
  • brought about
  • begun
  • drawn on
  • effectuated
  • done
  • brought forth
  • determined
  • brought on
  • fathered
  • prompted
  • given rise to
  • developed
  • initiated
  • translated (into)
  • resulted (in)
  • encouraged
  • started
  • fostered
  • nurtured
  • nourished
  • cultivated
  • introduced
  • established
  • decided
  • founded
  • launched
  • conduced (to)
  • contributed (to)
  • instituted
  • inaugurated
  • enacted
  • rendered
  • pioneered
  • promoted
  • forwarded
  • innovated
  • set up
  • advanced
  • turned out
  • furthered
  • set

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • limited
  • restricted
  • impeded
  • suppressed
  • subdued
  • killed
  • controlled
  • stifled
  • crushed
  • squelched
  • smothered
  • retarded
  • arrested
  • inhibited
  • repressed
  • quashed
  • dampened
  • quelled
  • restrained
  • checked
  • squashed
  • curbed
  • reined (in)
  • destroyed
  • extinguished
  • put down
  • clamped down (on)
  • abolished
  • stilled
  • cracked down (on)
  • liquidated
  • quenched
  • snuffed (out)
  • canned
  • demolished
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2
as in sired
to become the father of the racehorse begot several Kentucky Derby winners

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • sired
  • spawned
  • fathered
  • produced
  • born
  • procreated
  • gotten
  • reproduced
  • propagated
  • got
  • engendered
  • multiplied
  • generated
  • gendered
  • borne
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