Past tense of birth

Forms of birth

Birthed in a sentence

• She cites some recent examples from the papers: “I birthed two babies in rapid succession”; Beyoncé “birthed her twins”; while somewhere else in the same paper a woman proudly proclaimed: “I birthed a calf!”.2023 March 5, Jonathan Bouquet, “May I have a word about… being stuck in a permacrisis”, in The Observer, →ISSN
• 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
• A child so birthed in desolations, homeless between yestermorrow and noon's midnight must have a proper name.1970, Ray Bradbury, Reflections from the Man Who Landed on the Moon in 1929. From the entry yestermorrow
• It’s a monkey’s paw of a legacy, to have birthed an immortal gastronomic titan but not to have attained immortality of one’s own.2017 October 11, Helen Rosner, “What Le Cirque Will Be Remembered For”, in The New Yorker. From the entry monkey's paw

Meaning of birth

1. noun The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment.
2. noun An instance of childbirth.
3. noun A beginning or start; a point of origin.

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Questions about the past tense of birth

What is the past tense of birth?

The past tense of birth is birthed.

What is the past participle of birth?

The past participle of birth is birthed.

Is birth a regular or irregular verb?

Birth is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.