womb
To enclose in a womb, or as if in a wombTo enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
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» Karl's daughter died in the womb.
Amastan · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 senses(obsolete)To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
Examples
22 sentencesKarl's daughter died in the womb.
The baby is in the mother's womb.
ruМладенец находится в утробе матери. — carlosalberto
deDas Baby ist im Mutterleib. — carlosalberto
Life is a journey from womb to tomb.
The womb is the mother of all things.
There is but her womb ... and the baby within.
deEs gibt nur ihre Gebärmutter — und das Wesen darin. — al_ex_an_der
Origin
From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heFrom Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded nonnative Middle English mater, matere (“womb”), and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.
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Forms
wombs, wombing, wombed, wombedLessons 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.