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Meaning: (intransitive,ofviviparousanimals)Toreleaseliveoffspringfrom thebodyinto theenvironment.It was clear that she was about togive birth.; (transitive,withto,ofviviparousanimals)To become theparentof bybirthing.Shegave birthto a beautiful baby girl.1988, Emily Honig,Gail Hershatter, “Divorce”, inPersonal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's[1],Stanford, Cali.:Stanford University Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page219: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 shegave birthto a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack.2022June 1, Collier Jennings, “'The Orville': Everything You Need to Know Before Season 3”, inThe Collider[2]:The rest of theOrville'screw underwent changes as well. Bortus' beliefs were challenged when hegave birthto a daughter - on Moclan society, males are the dominant species and females must undergo a mandatory sex change.; (transitive,figuratively,usually withto,idiomatic)To become thesourceof.Einsteingave birthto a famous equation relating energy to mass.
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