verb
1. cause to be born (Freq. 2)
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My wife had twins yesterday!
• Hypernyms: ↑produce, ↑bring forth
• Hyponyms:
↑twin, ↑drop, ↑foal, ↑cub, ↑kitten, ↑lamb, ↑litter, ↑whelp, ↑pup, ↑farrow, ↑pig, ↑fawn, ↑calve, ↑have young, ↑have a bun in the oven, ↑bear, ↑carry, ↑gestate, ↑expect
• Verb Group: ↑have a bun in the oven, ↑bear, ↑carry, ↑gestate, ↑expect
• Entailment: ↑conceive
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody
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Somebody ——s
2. create or produce an idea (Freq. 1)
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Marx and Engels gave birth to communism
• Hypernyms: ↑create by mental act, ↑create mentally
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Something ——s something
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phrasal : to bear a child
she gave birth last Friday
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give birth
Of a mother, to bear or produce a baby
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Main Entry: ↑birth
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bear a child or young
she's due to give birth in March | she gave birth to a son
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give birth
1 of a mother : produce a baby from the body
Did she give birth in a hospital or at home?
— usually + to
He was present when his wife gave birth to his daughter.
Our cat gave birth to four kittens.
2 : to cause the beginning of something
— + to
a revolution that gave birth to a new nation
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Main Entry: ↑birth
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give birth — see ↑birth
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Main Entry: ↑give
Useful english dictionary. 2012.