transitive. = bring forth in various senses. To bear (offspring, fruit); to bring to pass.

transitive. To give birth to; to beget. Chiefly in passive: to be born or begotten. Also intransitive: to give birth.

transitive. To bear, produce (a child, offspring); to give birth to. Later also (in the progressive): to be due to give birth to; ‘to be expecting’.

transitive. Of a woman, other female mammal, or other viviparous animal: to give birth to (offspring); to have (a child or children). Cf. sense…

to bring into the world and variants: to give birth to; (also) to deliver (a baby). Chiefly in passive.

transitive. To produce, bear, give birth to (offspring); to bring forth (young). Frequently figurative. Obsolete (archaic in later use).

transitive. To give birth to (a child).

To produce, give birth to, bring into being, bear, yield (offspring; fruit, flowers, etc.; natural products; products, effects, results).

transitive. To bring forth, give birth to (a child). Also in figurative contexts.

transitive. To bring into existence; to cause to arise or appear. Cf. raise, v.1 9 12. Obsolete.

transitive. To bring forth or give birth to.

transitive. To bring (a person, being, etc.) into existence; to breed; to create.

transitive. Of a mother: †to give birth to, conceive (obsolete). Of a father: to beget. Now regional.

To give forth from its own substance by a natural process, or in return for cultivation or labour; to produce, bear, generate (fruit, seed…

transferred. Of human beings. (Contemptuously.)

intransitive. To produce offspring. Cf. sense 3. Obsolete. rare.

Now literary or archaic. transitive. Of a female parent: to conceive, bear, or give birth to (a child or offspring).

transitive. To bring forth (a child), to give birth to. Also figurative.

transitive. To give birth to (a child or offspring). Also figurative and in figurative contexts. rare in the 17th and 18th centuries.

transferred and figurative. To bring forth: often with contemptuous implication.

transitive. To bring (a child) into the world at birth.

figurative. To produce, give birth to.

transitive. To give birth to (a lamb, calf, etc.). rare.

To bear (offspring).

Of God, a god, or other creative force: to endow (a person, humankind, etc.) with life; to bring into existence.

To let fall in birth; to give birth to (young); to lay (an egg). The usual word in reference to sheep. Also absol.

transitive. To give birth to (a pup or pups). Also in extended use.

transitive. Chiefly U.S. regional and Caribbean. To give birth to (a child or offspring).

transitive. To produce or send forth; to give birth to (offspring); to send out or extend (branches). Cf. main sense 32, to throw out 3a at phrasal…

transitive. To give birth to.

transitive. Originally and chiefly North American. To give birth to (offspring); to bear.

transitive. To give birth to. (literal and figurative) Obsolete. rare.

To bring forth as from a shell. rare.

West African. to put to bed: to give birth. Also: to give birth to (a child).

= to bring forth at phrasal verbs: to give birth to, bear.