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inwomb

inwomb verb: to place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.

Verb

inwomb (third-person singular simple present inwombs, present participle inwombing, simple past and past participle inwombed)

  1. (transitive) To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
    • It was long before the Son of God was inwombed,…1881, Elizabeth Wilson, quoting Sir Nathaniel Bacon, 1647, Lights and Shadows of Ancient European Mythology, Language and History, Reprint edition, Kessinger Publishing, published 2003, →ISBN, page...
  2. (transitive) To enclose, inwrap.
    • Its faith dies like the inwombed fire of earth, …1854, Stephen Henry Bradbury, Edenor: A Dramatic Poem, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 61
    • The way the bathtub works is that you have to kind of get natal, zygotey, inwombed, stupid with white noise and tranquil with heat. You have to let the calentura run through you, ripple your rippled waters still. You have to pretend that what’s in you is being sweated out, purified.2008 March 30, Nellie, “You've got to take your mind off him”, in Let Loose Nellie, retrieved 27 Aug 2012

Examples of inwomb in a sentence

  • … epitomizes in his impairment the witchery of the mother … with no access to the outside, he becomes, in effect, inwombed by her.2009, Katherine Kearns, Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite, Cambridge Univ Press, →ISBN, page 18:
  • Dip under feel that warmth envelope you, cocooned again, inwombed again.2010 November 12, Derick Van Dusen, “TokeATee Come”, in Hello Poetry, retrieved 27 Aug 2012:

Forms of inwomb

third-person singular presentinwombs
present participleinwombing
past participleinwombed
pastinwombed
alternative formenwomb

Origin of inwomb

From in- + womb.

Questions about inwomb

What does inwomb mean?
Inwomb means to place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
How do you use inwomb in a sentence?
… epitomizes in his impairment the witchery of the mother … with no access to the outside, he becomes, in effect, inwombed by her.
What part of speech is inwomb?
Inwomb is a verb.
What is the past tense of inwomb?
The past tense of inwomb is inwombed.

Words near inwomb in the dictionary

  1. inwicks
  2. inwind
  3. inwinding
  4. inwinds
  5. inwit
  6. inwomb
  7. inwombed
  8. inwombing
  9. inwombs
  10. inwone
  11. inwones

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