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birth
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birth in WordNet English dictionary
verb
cause to be born
"My wife had twins yesterday!"
give birth
deliver
bear
birth
have
noun
the event of being born
"they celebrated the birth of their first child"
birth
nativity
nascency
nascence
a baby born; an offspring
"the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births"
birth
the process of giving birth
parturition
birth
giving birth
birthing
the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
parentage
birth
the time when something begins (especially life)
"they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age"
birth
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