Lexic.us

Definition of Give birth

1. Verb. Cause to be born. "My wife had twins yesterday!"

2. Verb. Create or produce an idea. "Marx and Engels gave birth to communism"

Definition of Give birth

1. Verb. (intransitive of viviparous animals) To release live offspring from the body into the environment ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive with ''to'' of viviparous animals) To become the female parent of. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive figuratively usually with ''to'') To become the source of. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Give Birth

give a rat's arse give a ring give a sneck posset give about give against give an eye-tooth give and take give as good as one gets give away give away the store

give back give birth (current term) give by give care give chase give cry give curry give ear give forth give heed

give him enough rope and he'll hang himself give hostage to fortune give in give into

Literary usage of Give birth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1772)
"An emulation would thus arife where it is much wanted ; and England might yet give birth to other Bacons and other ..."

2. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1888)
"These in due time give birth to young, which soon become agamic, egg-laying mothers, like the first ; and, like them, always remain wingless. ..."

3. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1879)
"With respect to goodness and badness, as it is with give birth to everything else that is not itself either pain or pleasure, so is it act. with motives. ..."

4. Guesses at Truth by Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1847)
"their consequences, and develope themselves along with the events they give birth to. tr. He must be a thorough fool, who can learn nothing from his own ..."

5. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"Her Claim to be His Widow and Heiress —She Secretly Borrows an Infant, to which She Pretends to give birth as Doctor ..."

6. The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution by Alexander Wilford Hall (1880)
"Note the following words :— "Vibrations which produce a large amount of disturbance give birth to secondary waves which appeal to the ear as resultant tones ..."

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