Fathered

adj, verb

adj, verb ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of father form-of, participle, past

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begetdaddaddyforefatherfounderpadre

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"After the invasion, Viking men took English wives and fathered children with the result that their daughters learned correct English from their mothers, and their sons learned bad English from their fathers, who hadn’t been in the country long enough to master the language."

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