Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The birth of a dead infant.
  • noun An infant who is dead at birth.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The birth of a lifeless thing; also, a still-born child.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The birth of a dead fetus.
  • noun a fetus which was born dead.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The birth of a dead fetus. The delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a natural loss of the products of conception

Etymologies

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still +‎ birth

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Examples

  • One of my great-grandmothers had picture-perfect pregnancies that ended in stillbirth in all but one case – my grandfather.

    A Good Birth | Her Bad Mother 2010

  • A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • A full-term stillbirth is not the worst-case scenario in pregnancy; it is the unfathomable.

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • Shannon Torrez's attorney asked family and friends to testify to his client's good nature and to build a case that her actions were caused by severe postpartum depression, the result of a full-term stillbirth that occurred the same day as the kidnapping.

    STLtoday.com Top News Headlines 2008

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