Be Born

Definition: Be Born

Be Born

Verb

1. Come into existence through birth; "She was born on a farm".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Intrinsicality

Verb: be in the blood, run in the blood; be born so; be intrinsic; Adjective:

Life

See the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life.

Crosswords: Be Born

I'm gonna hit you so hard, your children will be born bruised! (Tank Girl; writing credit: Alan Martin; Jamie Hewlett)

Not everyone could be born with such great looks. (The Jungle Book 2; writing credit: Carter Crocker; Karl Geurs)

No more than I was to be born. (Spartacus; writing credit: Howard Fast; Dalton Trumbo)

According to you, people should be born, live, and die in the same place. (Rear Window; writing credit: John Michael Hayes; Cornell Woolrich)

Well, I didn't ask to be born in a field! (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

A time to be born, a time to die ("Turn Turn Turn"; performing artist: The Byrds)

You may be born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but you need gold-hearted people to make your life more tasty. (references; author: unknown)

What boys say to girls: I wish I was one of your tears so I could be born in your eye, run down your cheek, and die on your lips. (references; author: unknown)

I Don't Want to Be Born (1975)

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Books

• The Collected Works of Billy Graham: Three Bestselling Works Complete in One Volume (Angels, How to Be Born Again, and The Holy Spirit) (reference)

• Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/a Time to Be Born (Library of America) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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A pregnant woman with syphilis can pass T. pallidum to her unborn child, who may be born with serious mental and physical problems as a result of this infection. When a newborn is affected it is known as "Congenital Syphilis". Credit: CDC.

...Oppress'd with taxes, grievous to be born! / J. Collier pinx. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

New Jersey must fight on that these shall not have died in vain - that these shall not be born in vain. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Great mistakes in the ruling part, many wrong and inconvenient laws, and all the slips of human frailty, will be born by the people without mutiny or murmur. (Second Treatise of Government)

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To be born with a caul is everything.

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Health

Affected infants may be born prematurely. (references)

Some babies who die s uddenly may be born with a metabolic disorder. (references)

Babies can be born with listeriosis if their mothers eat contaminated food during pregnancy. (references)

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Expressions using "be born": be born in smb. ♦ be born into a rich family ♦ be born under a lucky star ♦ be born under an unlucky star ♦ be born upon smb. ♦ be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth ♦ be born with a silver spoon in the mouth ♦ be born within the sound of bow bells ♦ To be born in the purple. Additional references.

Albanian

lind (arrive, bear, beget, begin, break, bring forth, come into being, engender, generate, give birth, have, produce, rise, see the light, spring up). (various references)

Aymara

yuriña (to be born). (various references)

Chinese 

誕�"� (to be born), �"� (life, to be born, to give birth, to grow), 出�"� (to be born). (various references)

Danish

være født (arise). (various references)

Dutch

spruiten (arise, bud), ontluiken (arise, bud, come into bloom, sprout), geboren worden (arise). (various references)

Esperanto

naskiĝi (arise). (various references)

Faeroese

verða føddur (arise). (various references)

Finnish

syntyä (arise, be brought forth, be produced, come into being, originate, spring up). (various references)

French

naître. (various references)

German

entstehen (accrue, arise, be produced, birth, build up, come, come into being, derive, develop, emerge, grow, originate, result, spring, to accrue, to arise, to come into being, to come into existence). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ול�". (various references)

Hungarian

születik (arise, to be born). (various references)

Indonesian

terlahir. (various references)

Italian

nascere (arise, be due, come, come up, derive, grow, originate, rise, spring up, sprout, start up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

貧乏に�"�まれる (to be born poor), �"�まれ落ちる (to be born), �"�まれつく (to be born), �"�まれ変わる (to be born again, to make a fresh start in life), �"�まれる (to be born), �"�まれ合わせる (to happen to be born), �"�れる (to be born), �"��'享ける (to be born, to live). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

び�"ぼうにうまれる (to be born poor), うまれおちる (to be born), うまれつく (to be born, to be destined), うまれかわる (to be born again, to make a fresh start in life), うまれあわせる (to happen to be born), うまれる (to be born), せい�'うける (to be born, to live). (various references)

Maya

siih (to be born). (various references)

Papiamen

nase (arise). (various references)

Pig Latin

ebay ornbay

Polish

urodzić się. (various references)

Portuguese

nascer (arise, come, germinate, hatch, rise, uprising). (various references)

Romanian

se naşte (arise, breed, form, see the light, spring), plodi (bread, procreate, spawn). (various references)

Russian 

родиться (see the light). (various references)

Sicilian

nasciri (to be born). (various references)

Spanish

nacer (arise, come into being, litter, originate, rise, see the light). (various references)

Swedish

vara född med silversked i munnen (be born with a silver spoon in the mouth). (various references)

Turkish

doğmak (arise, arrive, begin, break through, come about, emanate, emerge, ensue, grow out of, rise, spring). (various references)

Turkmen 

цnmek (grow up, mature, produce), dogulmak, dьnяд inmek. (various references)

Welsh

geni (arise, bear). (various references)

Wolof

juddu. (various references)

Yucatec

sihil (arise, birth). (various references)

Zulu

-zalwa (arise). (various references)

crea, creabit, creabitur, creabuntur, creans, crearentur, crearet, creas, creasti, creata, creatae, creatam, creati, creatis, creator, creatum, creatura, creaturae, creaturam, creatus, creavi, creavit, creavitque, creo, cretes, genas, genere, generis, genita, geniti, genitis, genuerat, genuerim, genuerint, genuerintque, genueris, genuerit, genueritis, genuerunt, genui, genuisset, genuisti, genuit, genuitque, gignat, gignet, gignit, gignuntur, ingenitum, nascantur, nascatur, nascebantur, nascemini, nascendi, nascentia, nascentur, nascerentur, nascetur, nasci, nascitur, nascuntur, nata, natae, nataeque, natas, natham, nati, natique, natis, nato, natorum, natos, natosque, natu, natum, natura, naturae, naturam, naturas, natus, pergen. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: boner, borne.

-2 letters: bone, bore, born, bren, ebon, robe.

-3 letters: ben, bob, bro, ebb, eon, ern, neb, nob, nor, obe, one, orb, ore, reb, rob, roe.

-4 letters: be, bo, en, er, ne, no, oe, on, or, re.

+1 letter: nobbier, nobbler.

+2 letters: baseborn, knobbier, nabobery, nobblers, ribboned, snobbery, snobbier.

+3 letters: absorbent, barbitone, hobnobber, knobblier, nonrubber.

+4 letters: absorbance, absorbency, absorbents, barbitones, belaboring, beribboned, bookbinder, breastbone, browbeaten, clobbering, hobnobbers, naboberies, ribbonlike, slobbering, snobberies, stubborner, unabsorbed.

+5 letters: absorbances, belabouring, bicarbonate, bombardment, bookbinders, bookbindery, boysenberry, breastbones, browbeating, firebombing, nonburnable, overdubbing, reabsorbing, stubbornest, unabsorbent.