UNBORN


Meaning of UNBORN in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an unborn baby (= not yet born )

Drinking alcohol is bad for your unborn baby.

an unborn child (= a baby that is still inside its mother )

Smoking can damage your unborn child.

an unborn infant

Unborn infants can hear certain sounds while still in the mother’s womb.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

baby

Strokes can even occur in unborn babies and small children.

Abortion is not a painless procedure, it kills a living unborn baby and can scar a woman both emotionally and physically.

Another use is to produce pictures of an unborn baby by reflecting ultrasonic waves off its body.

About 2,000 abortions a year are carried out due to abnormalities found in unborn babies .

How cold she have been so callous as to forget Berenice's unborn baby ?

Jake was tied to Janice by their unborn baby .

She was so concerned about her unborn baby , she usually over-reacted to any untoward symptom.

But the fact is that Courtney's dealing the hand of an unborn baby as well as her own.

child

Suddenly Jane was very frightened - for herself, for Mousa, and for her unborn child .

An infected female who becomes pregnant could infect her unborn child .

As she was seven months pregnant at the time, Geraldine feared not only for herself but also for her unborn child .

The third method is maternal transmission between an infected and pregnant woman and her unborn child .

She pressed her stomach with affection for her unborn child .

Happened all the time, women witnessing events that deformed their unborn children .

Damage An unborn child lacks the status to be the subject of a legal duty.

How dare you try to cut off funding for an unborn child .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A 26-year-old woman lost her unborn child when shrapnel tore into her abdomen.

But Zeus rescued her unborn child, sewed it up in his own thigh, and brought it forth afterwards.

During pregnancy her unborn child strips her of nourishment for its own metabolic needs, so she becomes still weaker.

I was still unborn , hammering at the egg, to get out into the air.

If injury is done to an unborn child, no duty is broken.

It is the innocent who are killed, the unborn children.

The report also notes evidence that secondary smoke from other people's cigarette harms unborn children too.

There he is, happy, and I am unborn .

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