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womb Definition

womb (wo̵̅o̅m)

noun

  1. Obsolete the belly
  2. uterus (sense )
  3. any place or part that holds, envelops, generates, etc. the womb of time

Etymology: ME wombe < OE wamb, akin to Ger wamme

womb Synonyms

womb

n.

uterus, female cavity, prenatal chamber, organ, belly*.

womb Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • enter: When you are ready blow out the candle and say: 'And the sun entered the womb of the sky mother and darkness fell.
  • remove: The normal procedure is to remove the womb together with the fibroids in one go.
  • leave: But if gigs weren't booked, I'm sure I wouldn't leave the womb of the studio.
  • open: Opening the womb alone can cause serious difficulties for the mother, quite apart from the effect of the operation on the baby.
  • cause: This causes the womb to expel the pregnancy, which usually happens during the next 4 to 6 hours.
  • have: Just because you have a womb, doesn't mean you should have kids.

Adjective modifier

  • tilted: Question My wife has recently been told that she has a ' tilted womb ' .
  • artificial: But it too will probably be finished during the 21st century, and artificial wombs built, if these should be thought desirable.
  • dark: He had lived a lifetime of such days. Now, lying lonely in the dark womb of his room he felt safe.
  • same: Fraternal twins share the same womb, but come from different ovum.

Modifies a noun

  • lining: The womb lining is then heated with the laser.
  • cancer: The pill also makes periods more regular which lowers the risk of womb cancer.
  • infection: I hated my body because I had developed a nasty womb infection and that is why my pregnancy ended.

Noun used with modifier

  • thy: And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
  • mother: Generally two healthy embryos are put into the mothers womb.

Possessives

  • mother: Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born?
  • woman: SCULLY: They showed me a tape of another woman's womb.

Preposition: of

  • mother: Did people come into this world through the natural process of birth, through the womb of a mother?
  • earth: The universe had one final miracle to reveal; the birth of a full moon from the womb of mother Earth.
  • woman: A tiny voice is heard from inside the womb of a pregnant woman: " Mother, give birth to me!
womb Quotes

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die, For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditionöa desire which†comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

—Smith, Adam

First, sturdy March with brows full sternly bent, And arme'  d strongly, rode upon a ram, The same which over Hellespontus swam: Yet in his hand a spade he also hent, And in a bag all sorts of seeds ysame, Which on the earth he strowe'  d as he went, And filled her womb with fruitful hope of nourishment.

—Spenser, Edmund

Lo, children are an heritage of the L: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb.

—Donne,John

Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the L gave, and the L hath taken away; blessed be the name of the L.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake†but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

—Crisp, Quentin

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

—Bible (Old Testament)

O wombe! O bely! O stynkyng cod Fulfilled of dong and of corrupcioun!

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

Historians spend their lives and lavish ink Explaining how great commonwealths collapse From great defects of policyöperhaps The cause is sometimes simpler than they think. † Have more states perished, then, For having shackled the enquiring mind, Than those who, in their folly not less blind, Trusted the servile womb to breed free men?

—Hope, A(lec) D(erwent)

From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave.

—Dryden,John

Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium, Sanguinisque pretiosi, Quem in mundi pretium Fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit gentium. Now, my tongue, the mystery telling Of the glorious Body sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the Gentiles' Lord and King, In aVirgin's womb once dwelling, Shed for this world's ransoming.

—Aquinas, StThomas

To be no more; sad cure; for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?

—Milton,John

They call her a young country, but they lie: She is the last of lands, the emptiest, A woman beyond her change of life, a breast Still tender but within the womb is dry.

—Hope, A(lec) D(erwent)

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep, For winter's big with summer in her womb.

—Sackville-West,Vita (Victoria Mary)