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The word of the day is ‘beget’.
The word is a verb, i.e., it demonstrates an action or an occurrence.
Yes, the past form of the word is begot.
It means:
1. Create
2. Bear
3. Bring (a child) into existence by the process of reproduction.
4. Bring about.
1. One evening a court was organized to try him for “malfeasance in office.”
2. In the language of the courts, an agent is liable to third parties for malfeasance, but not for misfeasance.
3. Without hesitation he found either Jimmie or his companion to be guilty of malfeasance in office.
4. After the time of Philip Augustus, there was malfeasance in the police of Paris.
5. Very little of the malfeasance in positions of public trust escaped the attention of this writer.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
bring about, engender, sire, afford, breed, bring, cause, effect, father, generate, multiply, occasion, procreate, produce, propagate, reproduce, give rise to, progenerate, result in, father, sire, engender, generate, spawn, create, give life to, bring into being, procreate, reproduce, breed cause, lead to, bring to pass, bring on, precipitate, provoke, kindle, trigger, spark off, touch off, stir up, whip up, induce, inspire, promote, foster, enkindle, effectuate etc.
halt, kill, stop, destroy, fail, leave, abolish, demolish, delete, exterminate, liquidate, subvert, overwhelm, exclude, extirpate, negate, crush, expunge
Quotation:
Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.
Shimon Peres
Social Example:
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