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gave birth

vb. (en-simple pastgive birth)

Usage examples of "gave birth".

A nineteenth-century visitor to the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, an Indian prince with an especially large harem, happened to be present during an eight-day period when four of the Nizam's wives gave birth, with nine more births anticipated for the following week.

Yes and even now the age is enfeebled and the earth exhausted by bearing scarce produces little living creatures, she who produced all races and gave birth to the huge bodies of wild beasts.

Ofelia had no idea how long it would be before she gave birth or laid her eggs or whatever, but she knew it was a bad time for the other humans to come.

It was known that the milk would dry if a woman didn't let others drink from her breasts, and not come again till she gave birth.

The first pair, Lahmu and Lahamu (interpreted by Jacobsen [11] as the silt deposited at the junction of the sea and the rivers) gave birth to Anshar and Kishar, interpreted by the same scholar as the circular horizons of sky and earth.

Once I heard a news story about a woman who gave birth to a baby she couldn't keep, so the doctor who delivered the baby adopted him.