gestate

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It is her body and if she doesn't want to gestate, she has the unfettered right, at least in the early months, to terminate the pregnancy.

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  1. transitive verb To carry within the uterus from conception to delivery.
  2. transitive verb To conceive and develop in the mind.
  3. intransitive verb To gestate offspring.
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  • This was the one encounter in which dragon did not kill dragon; she had to go gestate, and he had to let her go. —  Dragon's Gold
  • The End of the Beginning - TEHRAN - Iran's 1979 revolution took a full year to gestate. —  memeorandum
  • There's no real set time to allow your business to gestate before declaring it a failure, but you will know inside that it's time to move on. —  AlwaysOn Feed
  • Whip mill-key way magic into my barren eggs so astral seeds gestate in my literary womb —  **EMERALD EYES**
  • Vulture Culture suspects: zygote zealots and abortion-criminalizers like Canada's Blob Blogging Wingnut heaped praise on Nadya Suleman for resisting the option of aborting some of the embryos in order to gestate the others for a longer term inside her womb. —  Progressive Bloggers
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Back-formation from gestation.

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  1. Latin gestare (past participle gestatus): see gestation.
 

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/ˈdʒɛsteɪt/
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