GIVE BIRTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does give birth mean? 

• GIVE BIRTH (verb)
  The verb GIVE BIRTH has 2 senses:

1. cause to be born

2. create or produce an idea

  Familiarity information: GIVE BIRTH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIVE BIRTH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to be born

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

bear; birth; deliver; give birth; have

Context example:

My wife had twins yesterday!

Hypernyms (to "give birth" is one way to...):

bring forth; produce (bring forth or yield)

"Give birth" entails doing...:

conceive (become pregnant; undergo conception)

Verb group:

bear; carry; expect; gestate; have a bun in the oven (be pregnant with)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give birth"):

twin (give birth to twins)

drop (give birth; used for animals)

foal (give birth to a foal)

cub (give birth to cubs)

kitten (give birth to kittens)

lamb (give birth to a lamb)

litter (give birth to a litter of animals)

pup; whelp (give birth to (a puppy))

farrow; pig (give birth to (piglets))

fawn (have fawns)

calve; have young (give birth to (a calf))

bear; carry; expect; gestate; have a bun in the oven (be pregnant with)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Create or produce an idea

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

Marx and Engels gave birth to communism

Hypernyms (to "give birth" is one way to...):

create by mental act; create mentally (create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Up to her old tricks, she, too, had fled the inhospitable fires of the gods and gone back to her old refuge to give birth to her young.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Fully mature 20-24 month old females typically give birth to twins after a 150 day gestational period.

(Marmoset, NCI Thesaurus)

This is most likely to happen around the time you give birth.

(HIV/AIDS and Pregnancy, NIH)

The discomfort that is experienced by the pregnant mother during the childbirth process as she attempts to give birth.

(Labor Pain, NCI Thesaurus)

Pea aphids are insects that reproduce rapidly and typically give birth to offspring that don't have wings.

(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)

And new research using NASA satellite data shows that tracking vegetation from space can help wildlife managers predict when does will give birth to fawns.

(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)

I didn’t move that year, but my daughter give birth to a little baby boy that pulled the entire family closer together.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The report notes pregnant women exposed to polluted air are likely to give birth prematurely and have low-weight babies.

(WAir Pollution a Health Risk for Children, Lisa Schlein/VOA)

You might start the in vitro fertilization process, find out you are expecting, or give birth to your baby now.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This might be how this eclipse will work for you—you may give birth to a baby, or a member of your family may do so, and the joy of it all may touch you deeply.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)