Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The birth of a dead infant.
- noun An infant who is dead at birth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The birth of a lifeless thing; also, a still-born child.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The birth of a dead fetus.
- noun a fetus which was born dead.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
birth of adead fetus . Thedelivery of aninfant which is dead at birth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a natural loss of the products of conception
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of my great-grandmothers had picture-perfect pregnancies that ended in stillbirth in all but one case – my grandfather.
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A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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Shannon Torrez's attorney asked family and friends to testify to his client's good nature and to build a case that her actions were caused by severe postpartum depression, the result of a full-term stillbirth that occurred the same day as the kidnapping.
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