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Excerpted from The Concise Roget's International Thesaurus 6th Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer Copyright © 2003 by Barbara Ann Kipfer

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1 BIRTH NOUNS 1 birth, genesis, nativity, nascency, childbirth, childbearing, having a baby, giving birth, birthing, parturition, biogenesis, blessed event, the stork; confinement, lying-in, being brought to bed, childbed, accouchement; labor, travail, birth throes or pangs, delivery, blessed event; the Nativity; multiparity; hatching; littering, whelping, farrowing; active birth, alternative birth VERBS 2 be born, have birth, come forth, issue forth, see the light of day, come into the world; hatch; be illegitimate or born out of wedlock, have the bar sinister; be born on the wrong side of the blanket 3 give birth, bear, bear or have young, have; have a baby, bear a child, have children; drop, cast, throw, pup, whelp, kitten, foal, calve, fawn, lamb, cub, yean, farrow, litter, spawn, lay eggs; lie in, be confined, labor, travail ADJS 4 born, given birth; hatched; bred, begotten, cast, dropped, whelped, foaled, calved; née; newborn; stillborn; bearing, giving birth