whelp
whelp · whelps · whelped · whelping
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werfen, Junge werfen, jungen, wölfen
To give birthTo give birth.
» I hope to attend the whelping of my goat.
AmarMecheri · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 senses(usually)To give birth.
The bitch whelped.
The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.
werfen, Junge werfen, jungen
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give birth to (a puppy)
Examples
2 sentencesI hope to attend the whelping of my goat.
The chief havoc was committed by a she-wolf, which, with her annual litter of whelps, had infested the neighbourhood.
Translations
5 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
(animals) to give birth:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
(animals) to give birth:
Origin
From Middle English whelpen, from Old English hwelpian, derived from hwelp.From Middle English whelpen, from Old English hwelpian, derived from hwelp.
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Forms
whelps, whelping, whelped, whelpedSynonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- give birth to (a puppy):pup
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.