Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Strangled or suffocated at birth.
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Examples
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'Finger of birth-strangled babe' is one of the ingredients of that widely-collected composition of the Macbeth witches.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams
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But the base suspicion was birth-strangled as they spoke again.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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But the base suspicion was birth-strangled as they spoke again.
In a Cellar 1859
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“Laird of Macfarlane’s geese, who liked their play better than their meat,” disposed of his time with the aid of cup and trencher, occasionally humming the burden of his birth-strangled ballad, and beating time to it with his fingers on the little round table.
The Abbot 2008
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