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ˈstillˌbirth

/ ˈstɪlˌbɜːθ /

noun

  1. birth of a dead fetus or baby
  2. a stillborn fetus or baby
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The Campaign is not a still birth, merely just about what you expected.

Of these fifty-three ended in still-birth or miscarriage and there were forty-four early deaths—a total loss of 57 per cent.

Sometimes the impression of this diathesis is so intense as to devitalize the foetus in utero, causing still-birth.

If a woman gives birth to a male still-birth, Nergal will destroy, the man will die before his time.

Commerce was another case of infant-city still-birth, Norfolk was less.

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