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English verb: give birth | |||
| 1. | give birth (body) cause to be born | ||
| Samples | My wife had twins yesterday!. | ||
| Synonyms | bear, birth, deliver, have | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bring forth, produce | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bear, calve, carry, cub, drop, expect, farrow, fawn, foal, gestate, have a bun in the oven, have young, kitten, lamb, litter, pig, pup, twin, whelp | ||
| Entail | conceive | ||
| Verb group | bear, carry, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven | ||
| 2. | give birth (creation) create or produce an idea | ||
| Samples | Marx and Engels gave birth to communism. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | create by mental act, create mentally | ||
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