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carry to term

v. carry out a pregnancy; "She decided to carry the child to term, even though the foetus was shown to be defective" [ant: miscarry]

Usage examples of "carry to term".

More often, a yellow-card chimmie would carry to term and adopt an embryo engineered with the next generation .

Cecily Kellogg had had three spontaneous abortions within those walls: if she was willing to keep trying to carry to term, the hospital couldn't care less - so long as her bills were paid.