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Parturiency

Parturition.

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Broader term 3

Birth 76% connected

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

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Birthing 76% connected

Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.

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Parturition 76% connected

The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.

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Effacement 70% connected

The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

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Obliquity 70% connected

The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence…

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Containing whole 3

Gestation 70% connected

The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).

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Maternity 70% connected

The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.

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Pregnancy 70% connected

The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.

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Synonym 6

Childbed 92% connected

The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Confinement 92% connected

Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Labor 92% connected

Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Labour 92% connected

productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lying-in 92% connected

The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Travail 92% connected

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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