| Main Entry: | birthing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | birth |
Synonyms: |
accouchement, bearing, childbearing, childbirth, delivery, giving birth, labor, lying-in, parturition |
| Main Entry: | birth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | becoming alive |
Synonyms: |
act of God, bearing, beginning, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbirth, creation, delivery, labor, nascency, natality, nativity, parturition, producing, travail, visit from stork |
Antonyms: |
death |
| Main Entry: | deliver |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discharge, give forth |
Synonyms: |
accouch, bear, birth, born, dispense, feed, find, hand, hand over, produce, provide, release, supply, turn over |
| Main Entry: | delivery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | childbirth |
Synonyms: |
Caesarian section, accouchement, bearing, birth, birthing, bringing forth, childbearing, confinement, geniture, labor, lying-in, parturition, travail |
| Main Entry: | emanate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come forth; give off |
Synonyms: |
arise, birth, derive, discharge, egress, emerge, emit, exhale, exit, exude, flow, initiate, issue, originate, proceed, radiate, rise, send forth, spring, stem |
Antonyms: |
take, withdraw |
| Main Entry: | issue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emit, emerge; come from |
Synonyms: |
appear, arise, be a consequence, birth, come forth, derive from, emanate, exude, flow, give off, give out, ooze, originate, proceed, release, rise, send forth, spring, spurt, stem, throw off, vent, well |
Antonyms: |
hold, keep, repress, retain, suppress |
| Main Entry: | originate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | begin; spring |
Synonyms: |
arise, be born, birth, come, come from, come into existence, commence, dawn, derive, emanate, emerge, flow, hail from, issue, proceed, result, rise, start, stem |
Antonyms: |
end, finish, terminate |
| Main Entry: | spring |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | originate, emerge |
Synonyms: |
appear, arise, arrive, be derived, be descended, begin, birth, burgeon, come, come into being, come into existence, come out, commence, derive, descend, develop, emanate, flow, grow, hatch, head, issue, loom, mushroom, proceed, rise, shoot up, start, stem, upspring |
| Main Entry: | blessed event |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | live birth of a child |
Synonyms: |
birth, birthing, childbirth, delivery, happy event, natality, parturition, visit from the stork |
| Main Entry: | accouchement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | birth |
Synonyms: |
birthing, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, delivery, labor, lying-in, parturition |