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stillborn

/stil-bawrn/US // ˈstɪlˌbɔrn //UK // (ˈstɪlˌbɔːn) //

死胎,死产,静止的,胎死腹中

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : dead when born.
    • : ineffectual from the beginning; abortive; fruitless: a stillborn plan of escape.

Examples

  • Sukiri ate her two stillborn cubs, which is “not unusual for a carnivore and in line with wild female cheetah behavior as a dead cub invites predators,” officials said in a statement.

  • According to animal experts, it is not uncommon for cheetahs to have stillborn cubs.

  • Hospitals used to whisk stillborn babies away from their parents, but they now recognize the importance of memories in grieving.

  • Another baby, stillborn, Huntsman told police, was also found.

  • After all, it was stillborn, never getting a chance to move from idea into action.

  • One day… Jenna Petro Antigo, Wisconsin Our baby, Amy, was stillborn 32 years ago, and we still think of her every day.

  • Anonymous Our daughter, Alyson, was stillborn at full term with no indication of any problems in 2008.

  • Her roommate had had a stillborn baby and my mother felt sad for her.

  • She is the mother of a stillborn child, whose body is to be thrown in the river.

  • Your thoughts now struggle for birth, but are fated to die stillborn, while the foe laughs you in the face.

  • The fire department died stillborn; but the police force promptly asserted itself.

  • Mary was born in 1516 and survived, but all the children who came afterwards were either stillborn or died in early infancy.

  • Webber did his best to rise to this embryonic flirtation, but it died stillborn in nods and smiles for want of an interpreter.