birth
/bɜɹθ/ verb C2- To bear or give birth to (a child).
- To produce, give rise to.
He/she/it births · Past birthed · Past participle birthed · -ing form birthing
Verb forms
- Base form
- birth
- He/she/it
- births
- Past
- birthed
- Past participle
- birthed
- -ing form
- birthing
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“He has been lame in one foot from his birth.
Lady Catherine herself says that, in point of true beauty, Miss de Bourgh is far superior to the handsomest of her sex; because there is that in her features which marks the young woman of distinguished birth.
Elizabeth, equally next to Jane in birth and beauty, succeeded her of course.
Bingley; and the train of agreeable reflections which her observations gave birth to made her perhaps almost as happy as Jane.
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