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be born
verb
1 be born
Come into existence through birth.
Roget 359:
be alive
etc.
adj.;
live,
breathe,
respire;
subsist
etc.
(exist)
1;
walk the earth,
strut and fret one's hour upon the stage"
[Macbeth];
be spared.
see the light,
be born,
come into the world,
fetch breath,
draw breath,
fetch the breath of life,
draw the breath of life;
quicken;
revive;
come to life.
give birth to
etc.
(produce)
161;
bring to life,
put into life,
vitalize;
vivify,
vivificate†;
reanimate
etc.
(restore)
660;
keep alive,
keep body and soul together,
keep the wolf from the door;
support life.
hive nine lives like a cat.
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Dutch: [[geboren]] [[worden]]
Moby thesaurus: arise, awake, awaken, be begotten, be illegitimate, be incarnated, become, break out, burst forth, come alive, come forth, come into being, come into existence, come out, come to, come to be, come to life, crop up, erupt, get to be, hatch, have birth, have origin, irrupt, issue, issue forth, live again, originate, quicken, reanimate, resurge, resuscitate, return to life, revive, rise, rise again, see the light, spring up, take birth, take rise ... show more.
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