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What is the verb for birth?

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bear

(transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
(transitive) To carry something.
(transitive) To be equipped with (something).
(transitive) To wear or display.
(witness) To declare as testimony.
(transitive) To put up with something.
(transitive) To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).
(transitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
(intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
(intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
(intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
(intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
(transitive, intransitive) To take effect; to have influence or force.
(intransitive, usually with on or upon) To relate or refer.
(transitive) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
(transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
(transitive) To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
(transitive) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
(transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
(transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
(transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
(transitive) To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
(transitive) To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).
(transitive) To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
Synonyms:

carry, convey, bring, take, haul, lug, pack, tote, fetch, hold, lift, cart, conduct, hump, move, relay, shift, ferry, transport, schlepp, transfer, transmit, truck, send, shoulder, dispatch, deliver, schlep, ship, buck, run, piggyback, heave, drag, hoist, heft, draw, forward, route, channel, pull, pass on, communicate, impart, spread, funnel, direct, pipe, tow, disseminate … more

Examples:

“The three wise men will arrive soon, and each is expected to bear gifts.”

“The flowers wilted, unable to bear the chilly temperatures.”

“They show not only fine workmanship but also bear engraved emblems.”

birth

(dated or regional) To bear or give birth to (a child).
(figuratively) To produce, give rise to.
Synonyms:

bear, have, deliver, produce, mother, drop, give birth to, bring forth, bring into the world, beget, spawn, create, be delivered of, be brought to bed of, conceive, reproduce, breed, procreate, engender, give life to, give birth, bring into being, parent, father, yield, generate, rear, sire, make, effectuate, foster, kindle, progenerate, hatch, propagate, cause, induce, effect, occasion, prompt, bring, catalyze, invoke, bring on, work, produce offspring, draw on, give rise to, result in, do … more

Examples:

“When nine months passed, the day arrived for Ruth to birth her first child.”

born

past participle of bear; given birth to.
(obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
Synonyms:

Examples:

“He told the census taker that he was a clergyman born in New York, to a father who was born in Germany, and a mother who was born in the United States.”

bear

(finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
Synonyms:

Examples:

“The three wise men will arrive soon, and each is expected to bear gifts.”

“The flowers wilted, unable to bear the chilly temperatures.”

“They show not only fine workmanship but also bear engraved emblems.”

be born

to come into existence through birth
Synonyms:

begin, start, transpire, appear, arise, commence, emerge, develop, eventuate, occur, originate, actualize, dawn, emanate, form, happen, materialise, materialize, result, surface, erupt, set, unfold, catalyse, catalyze, crystallise, crystallize, manifest, precipitate, incite, initiate, spark, spawn, enkindle, foster, invoke, kickoff, actuate, engender, establish, institute, activate, occasion, rise, trigger, arrive, sprout, become apparent, become established, be created … more

born

(Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn With fire.
Synonyms:

Examples:

“He told the census taker that he was a clergyman born in New York, to a father who was born in Germany, and a mother who was born in the United States.”

bearing

borning

present participle of born

borne

past participle of bear
Synonyms:

Examples:

“He details the immense physical and psychological suffering that was borne by him and the other foster children.”

beare

Obsolete form of bear.
Examples:

“This Tree of guls was planted long since, but not taking roote, could neuer beare till now.”

“Soe we envited hym to our fro tomorrow, with v or VJ others to beare hym company, viz.”

“I charge you, as ye woll have my love, that ye warne your kynnesmen that ye woll beare that day the slyve of golde uppon your helmet.”

beares

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beare

bears

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bear
Synonyms:

borns

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of born

beareth

(archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of bear
Examples:

“Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.”

“French poppy beareth a faire flower, and the Seed will make you sleepe.”

“Lia ceasing to bear, giveth also her handmaid, and she beareth two more.”

bearest

(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of bear

birthed

simple past tense and past participle of birth
Synonyms:

Examples:

“It is like a mother who has birthed many, many children watching every one of them die very slowly while knowing that it is all her fault.”

“Simultaneously, they repeat those lines once more and the hulking man lowers his gaze to the tiny woman who birthed him.”

“Although I am petite, both babies were birthed without any tears or cutting.”

bornt

(Geordie) simple past tense and past participle of born
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beared

simple past tense and past participle of bear
Synonyms:

Examples:

“The Bullman family beared witness to a black bear sitting like a human on a picnic table in their backyard.”

“It should not have occurred and these women should not have beared what has happened here.”

“Freeman moved into scoring position on a wild pitch, but Hess beared down and got out of the inning without further damage. ”

bearen

(obsolete) plural simple present form of bear

bornin

present participle of born

borned

(nonstandard) born
Examples:

“My man sez since I am almost as old as he is I must have been borned about the same tyme he wus and that wus back in a year kalled nyneteen and twenty-ate.”

“And a new form of shopping comparison site was borned, a shopping comparison site more focused on the product quality than the price.”

“Three applications borned from the experience gained through years of product development for these two sectors.”

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