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giving birth
 
Noun giving birth has 1 sense
  1. parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing - the process of giving birth
    --1 is a kind of organic process, biological process
    --1 is a part of reproduction
    --1 has particulars:
     brooding, incubation; calving; childbirth, childbearing, accouchement, vaginal birth; farrow, farrowing; hatch, hatching; laying, egg laying; parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
Verb give birth has 2 senses
  1. give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have - give birth (to a newborn); "My wife had twins yesterday!"
    --1 is one way to produce, bring forth
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    => Somebody ----s
  2. give birth - create or produce an idea; "Marx and Engels gave birth to communism"
    --2 is one way to     create by mental act, create mentally
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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