Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The human act or process of giving birth; parturition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor: as, “pains of child-birth,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The fact or action of
giving birth to a child, as the culmination ofpregnancy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child
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Examples
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According to some sources, a teenage girl is more likely to die in childbirth than to complete primary school.
John Travis: The Best First Step for South Sudan John Travis 2010
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According to some sources, a teenage girl is more likely to die in childbirth than to complete primary school.
John Travis: The Best First Step for South Sudan John Travis 2010
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She died in childbirth with their fourteenth child.
Traveling in India: Kisses at the Taj Mahal « Colleen Anderson 2010
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Having almost expired in childbirth (and having thus been hastily baptized to save his immortal soul), the little boy fell victim to scrofula and was stricken partially blind and deaf.
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Orphaned by their mothers death in childbirth and their fathers disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.
Cutting For Stone: Summary and book reviews of Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese. 2009
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After Mollie died in childbirth, leaving Max with a baby daughter, Sophie and William Pearson took the baby into their own family, and raised her with their own son and daughters (including Granny).
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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While the act of childbirth is an adventure in itself, Shaw exaggerates the metaphor and transcends it, all with a whimsical yet serious beat.
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The statistic is not the probability of a pregnant woman dying in childbirth but the number (or probability in a specified country) of a womnan dying in childbirth, regardless of the number of pregnant women.
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However, childbirth is still a mysterious event for some aspects and you can never know with certainty what may happen.
Global Voices in English » Japan: Doctor shortage, the medical system in crisis 2009
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The girl who proved to be Truly paid the price of her enormity; her father blamed her for her mother's death in childbirth, and was totally ill equipped to raise either this giant child or her polar opposite sister Serena Jane, the epitome of feminine perfection.
marky commented on the word childbirth
"Childbirth is no more a miracle than eating food and a turd coming out of your ass."
I just read this on someone's facebook favorite quotations. they also have plenty of pictures of their kids too. lol
March 22, 2011
yarb commented on the word childbirth
There is something miraculous about a turd, now that you mention it.
March 22, 2011
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word childbirth
Is that quote meant to be funny?
Or stupid?
Because it's certainly not the former.
March 22, 2011
marky commented on the word childbirth
you're right, it's not funny at all. it's just, i cannot believe someone would say something like that! OMFG!
March 22, 2011