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still-birth

still-birth is the alternative spelling of stillbirth.

Meaning of stillbirth

Noun

stillbirth (countable and uncountable, plural stillbirths)

  1. The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.
  2. The birth of a dead fetus after 20 weeks of gestation.
    • Each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of the newborn child.1988, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5890

Forms of still-birth

pluralstill-births

Questions about still-birth

What is still-birth the alternative spelling of?
Still-birth is the alternative spelling of stillbirth.

Words near still-birth in the dictionary

  1. still wines
  2. still with us
  3. Still's disease
  4. Still's murmur
  5. Still's murmurs
  6. still-birth
  7. still-births
  8. still-born
  9. still-green
  10. still-hunt
  11. still-hunted

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