Stillborn - What does it mean?
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Dead at birth.
* 1768 , , "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III,"
* 1978 , Holy Bible (New International Version) , Job 3:16,
(figuratively, by extension) Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.
* 1859 , , Love Me Little, Love Me Long , ch. 11,
* 1915 , , The Highgrader , ch. 18,
stillborn
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* still-bornAdjective
(-)- Queen Anne, before Elizabeth, bore a still-born son.
- Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?
- This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year. . . . Of these some were stillborn , but the majority hold the market.
- His lips framed themselves to whistle the first bars of a popular song, but the sound died stillborn .