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[ verb ] give birth (to a newborn)
Examples "My wife had twins yesterday!" Used in print (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)Other herpetologists have ascertained that in the northern United_States the prairie_rattlesnake may_not give first birth until it is four or even five years old , and that the young may be_born every_other year , rather_than annually . The female from Central_America which gave_birth to four was only 3 feet 11 inches long . |
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[ verb ] create or produce an idea
Examples "Marx and Engels gave birth to communism" Used in print (Perry Miller "Theodore Parker: Apostasy within Liberalism"...)In both cases the stubborn fact remains : liberalism gave_birth to two brilliant apostates , both legitimate offspring of its loins , and when brought to the test , it behaved shabbily . Related terms |
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