womb

[womb]

A womb is the organ in which female mammals grow and carry a fetus before it's ready to be born. Your first home was a womb, but good luck trying to return there.

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The belly; the abdomen.

Noun
a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus


n.
The belly; the abdomen.

n.
The uterus. See Uterus.

n.
The place where anything is generated or produced.

n.
Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.

v. t.
To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.


Womb

Womb , n. [OE. wombe, wambe, AS. wamb, womb; akin to D. wam belly, OS. & OHG. wamba, G. wamme, wampe, Icel. v'94mb, Sw. v&mb, Dan. vom, Goth. wamba.] 1. The belly; the abdomen. [Obs.] Chaucer.
And he coveted to fill his woman of the cods that the hogs eat, and no man gave him.
An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me.
2. (Anat.) The uterus. See Uterus. 3. The place where anything is generated or produced.
The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
4. Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
The center spike of gold Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb.

Womb

Womb, v. t. To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret. [Obs.] Shak.

The belly; the abdomen.

To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.

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Usage Examples

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

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Other Usage Examples

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

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