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deadborn

deadborn adjective: stillborn.

Adjective

deadborn (not comparable)

  1. (dated, rare) Stillborn.
    • Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.1777, David Hume, “My Own Life”, in Essays Moral, Political, Literary
    • Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one coffin.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 6: Hades]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Forms of deadborn

alternative formdead-born

Origin of deadborn

From dead + born.

Questions about deadborn

What does deadborn mean?
Deadborn means stillborn.
What part of speech is deadborn?
Deadborn is an adjective.

Words near deadborn in the dictionary

  1. deadblows
  2. deadbolt
  3. deadbolted
  4. deadbolting
  5. deadbolts
  6. deadborn
  7. deadbot
  8. deadcake
  9. deadcakes
  10. deadcart
  11. deadcarts

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