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give birth

Definitions

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  • verb intransitive To release live offspring from the body into the environment
  • verb intransitive To become the female parent of.
  • verb intransitive, figuratively To become the source of.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb create or produce an idea
  • verb cause to be born

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synonyms (38)

Words with the same meaning

  1. animate
  2. be confined
  3. bear
  4. bear a child
  5. bear young
  6. breathe life into
  7. bring into being
  8. bring into existence
  9. bring to life
  10. call into being
  11. call into existence
  12. calve
  13. cast
  14. conceive
  15. drop
  16. endow with life
  17. energize
  18. farrow
  19. fawn
  20. foal
  21. give life to
  22. have
  23. have a baby
  24. have young
  25. inspirit
  26. kitten
  27. labor
  28. lamb
  29. lie in
  30. litter
  31. pup
  32. quicken
  33. throw
  34. travail
  35. vitalize
  36. vivify
  37. whelp
  38. yean

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. create by mental act
  2. create mentally

relateds (3)

relateds

  1. bear
  2. birth
  3. born

cross-references (5)

Cross-references

  1. beget
  2. give rise to
  3. go into labor
  4. in labor
  5. procreate

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