gives birth
Brings forth young
Gives birth describes the act of delivering offspring from the body, the culmination of pregnancy: She gives birth next month.
The phrase applies literally to mammals and figuratively to creation: The crisis gave birth to a new political movement.
The simple past is gave birth; the noun form is birth.
- deliveryConveyance of goods
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- labor painsChildbirth's physical distress
- pregnancyCarrying developing offspring
- due dateWhen payment is required
accouchement · pain · parturition · spawns · maternity · push · neonate · newborn baby · baby · foals · contractions · calves · breeds · whelps · gestation · firstborn · swaddled · crowning
gives birthkills
Causes to die
murders · slays · euthanizes · aborts · extinguishes
gives birthdestroys
Causes complete ruin
takes away · annihilates · obliterates · extinguishes · eliminates
gives birthconceives
Forms in mind
sires · fathers · begets · impregnates · fertilizes
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