From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgive birth (to somebody)give birth (to somebody)MBif a woman gives birth, she produces a baby from her body Patsy was celebrating last night after giving birth to twins. → birth
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give birth (to somebody)• Clones of clones are giving birth to other clones.• At 9:40 Claudia gave birth to a nine-pound baby boy.• Earth gave birth to her last and most frightful offspring, a creature more terrible than any that had gone before.• The Birmingham Canal, authorised in 1768, in effect gave birth to a port.• Locklear has just given birth to a daughter.• Two months later she gave birth to a female child who was born with club feet.• These females do not lay eggs; they give birth to young aphids, all of which are females.• Another version has Poseidon raping the Gorgon, Medousa, who gives birth to Persephone. 