Womb
[wuːm] or [wum]
Definition
(n.) The belly; the abdomen.
(n.) The uterus. See Uterus.
(n.) The place where anything is generated or produced.
(n.) Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
(v. t.) To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Uterus.
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Definition
n. the uterus the organ in which the young of mammals are developed and kept till birth: (Shak.) the stomach: the place where anything is produced: any deep cavity.—v.t. (Shak.) to contain.—adj. Womb′y (Shak.) capacious.
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Examples
- Hermione saw herself as the perfect Idea, to which all men must come: And Ursula was the perfect Womb, the bath of birth, to which all men must come! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The present would not be the womb of the future: nothing would be embryonic, nothing would _grow_. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His mind was sweetly at ease, the life flowed through him as from some new fountain, he was as if born out of the cramp of a womb. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The shape, also, of the pelvis might affect by pressure the shape of certain parts of the young in the womb. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The lovely creative warmth flooded through him like a sleep of fecundity within the womb. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She seemed to try and put her hands out, like an infant in the womb, and she could not, not yet. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And to know, to give utterance, was to break a way through the walls of the prison as the infant in labour strives through the walls of the womb. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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