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rebeget

rebeget verb: to beget again.

Verb

rebeget (third-person singular simple present rebegets, present participle rebegetting, simple past rebegot, past participle rebegotten)

  1. To beget again.
    • He ruin'd mee, and I am re-begot / Of absence, darknesse, death; things which are not.a. 1631, John Donne, “A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day”, in Poems, published 1633

Forms of rebeget

third-person singular presentrebegets
present participlerebegetting
pastrebegot
past participlerebegotten

Origin of rebeget

From re- + beget.

Questions about rebeget

What does rebeget mean?
Rebeget means to beget again.
What part of speech is rebeget?
Rebeget is a verb.
What is the past tense of rebeget?
The past tense of rebeget is rebegot.

Words near rebeget in the dictionary

  1. rebed
  2. rebedded
  3. rebedding
  4. rebeds
  5. rebegan
  6. rebeget
  7. rebegin
  8. rebeginner
  9. rebeginners
  10. rebeginning
  11. rebeginnings

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