giving birth
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1.9
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parto
- Many women experience a range of emotions when giving birth for the first time.
- women giving birth
- a mother giving birth
- giving birth to a baby
Your wife is in the process of giving birth to a baby.
- Your wife is in the process of giving birth to a baby.
- Pregnant woman who contract malaria are at high risk of giving birth to low birth weight children.
- I was so prepared and focused on giving birth itself.
- It's a lot trickier after giving birth.
- That's just like giving birth, you know, after a very long labor.
- Will there be times when certain priorities, like giving birth in Rosa's case, are the headline?
Examples
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Your wife is in the process of giving birth to a baby.
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It's three years after getting married, and Nina is giving birth to their second child.
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I was so prepared and focused on giving birth itself.
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What was it like giving birth to such a queen?
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I lost a lot of blood giving birth to my second child.
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Well, this paper here says that she almost died giving birth.
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I have been told that your wife died in giving birth to your son.
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My mother died giving birth to me, and my father was in the Kuomintang army.
Fiction book (1993) -
I felt I wanted to have that biological feminine experience of pregnancy and giving birth.
Academic text (2017) -
Women go through a lot of bodily changes when they give birth, hormones and all that.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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1.0
The process when a baby or young animal comes into the world
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3.5
A woman's time of having a baby, from the first pains to the baby being born
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2.3
The time when a woman has a baby
34
3.3
The act of giving birth to a baby
3
8.1
The act of giving birth to a baby
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3.4
The physical stages a person goes through when a baby comes out of their body
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9.9
The process of giving birth to a baby or young animal
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9.9
The time when a baby is born
The time when a person or animal gives birth
Helping a woman to give birth, often by doctors or nurses
How Difficult
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the process of bringing a baby into the world' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'give' (to produce/supply) with 'birth' (the occurrence of a baby being born). This light-verb construction is common in English and has clear parallels in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Giving birth shows a simple, literal picture: a mother giving a baby at the moment of birth, like handing the child into the world. That's why it means 'bringing a baby into the world'.