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单词 womb
释义 womb
I. \ˈwüm\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English wombe, wambe, wamb, from Old English wamb, womb; akin to Old High German wamba belly, Old Norse vömb belly, womb, Gothic wamba belly
1. obsolete : belly
2.
 a. : uterus
  < transgressors from the womb — William Cowper >
  < the lamb … leaves the wombNew Zealand Journal of Agric. >
  < each adult female fly carries over 50 living larvae in her wombFarm Management >
 b. : cradle 1b
  < from the womb to the tomb >
3.
 a. : a cavity or space like a womb in containing and enveloping
  < the soul remembers the primal silence, the womb of Night — C.I.Glicksberg >
 b. : a place or space where something is generated or produced
  < the snow … would have been shed off around the sides, and piled down into the glacier wombs — John Muir †1914 >
 c. : a period of gestation : circumstances providing the protection and nurture necessary for birth or early development
  < the Church, a survival from the dying society, became the womb from which in due course the new one was born — A.J.Toynbee >
  < prepared themselves to leave the womb of government protection — S.T.Kimball >
  < the embryonic State would strangle in its womb — Tom Marvel >
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: to enclose in or as if in a womb
 < a new era was born … wombed in war's destruction — Time >
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