Meaning of give birth | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To release live offspring from the body into the environment.
   intransitive
2. To become the parent of by birthing.
   transitive
3. To become the source of.
   figuratively, idiomatic, transitive, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“It was clear that she was about to give birth.”

“She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.”

“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 she gave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack.”

“The rest of the Orville's crew underwent changes as well. Bortus' beliefs were challenged when he gave birth to a daughter - on Moclan society, males are the dominant species and females must undergo a mandatory sex change.”

“Einstein gave birth to a famous equation relating energy to mass.”

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