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give birth

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givebirth (third-person singular simple presentgives birth,present participlegiving birth,simple pastgave birth,past participlegiven birth)

  1. (intransitive, ofviviparous animals) Toreleaseliveoffspring from thebody into theenvironment.
    It was clear that she was about togive birth.
  2. (transitive, withto, ofviviparous animals) To become theparent of bybirthing.
    Shegave birth to a beautiful baby girl.
    • 1988, Emily Honig,Gail Hershatter, “Divorce”, inPersonal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's‎[1],Stanford, Cali.:Stanford University Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page219:
      The case of a woman named Qu Hua from Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang, illustrates this possibility. She married a worker named Xu Baocheng in 1980, and they got along very well until shegave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack.
    • 2022 June 1, Collier Jennings, “'The Orville': Everything You Need to Know Before Season 3”, inThe Collider‎[2]:
      The rest of theOrville's crew underwent changes as well. Bortus' beliefs were challenged when hegave birth to a daughter - on Moclan society, males are the dominant species and females must undergo a mandatory sex change.
  3. (transitive, figuratively, usually withto, idiomatic) To become thesource of.
    Einsteingave birth to a famous equation relating energy to mass.

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  • Togive birth refers to either the moment of childbirth as a point in time or to the period oflabor preceding childbirth.

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produce new life
to become the source of
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