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birthed

birthed is the simple past and past participle of birth.

Meaning of birth

Verb

birth (third-person singular simple present births, present participle birthing, simple past and past participle birthed)

  1. (transitive) To bear or give birth to (a child).
    • I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!1939, Sidney Howard, Ben Hecht, Jo Swerling, John Van Druten, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Gone with the Wind (film)
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To produce, give rise to.
    • Biological evolution created a human mind that enabled cultural evolution, which now outpaces and outclasses the force that birthed it.2006, R. Bruce Hull, Infinite Nature, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 156

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Phrases with birthed

Questions about birthed

What is birthed the simple past and past participle of?
Birthed is the simple past and past participle of birth.

Words near birthed in the dictionary

  1. birthdayish
  2. birthdayless
  3. birthdays
  4. birthdom
  5. birthdoms
  6. birthed
  7. birther
  8. birtherism
  9. birtherist
  10. birtherists
  11. birthers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birthed (page history and authors); birth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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