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stillborn

[ UK /stˈɪlbɔːn/ ]
[ US /ˈstɪɫˈbɔɹn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. failing to accomplish an intended result
    an abortive revolt
    a stillborn plot to assassinate the President
  2. (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn
    a stillborn baby

How To Use stillborn In A Sentence

  • Their risk of dying in childbirth is doubled and of having stillborn babies trebled, and other physical, sexual, and relationship problems are common.
  • The cemetery was also one of the few cemeteries that allowed stillborn babies to be buried in consecrated ground.
  • In addition, three stillborn babies died of proved group B streptococcal infection, one during labour.
  • Some may find him placing far too much emphasis on the impact of his alcoholic parents and stillborn twin brother, Jesse.
  • They are trained to presume that a dead infant is stillborn unless there is countervailing evidence.
  • Doctors thought she might have “placental abruption”, and that the baby would be at risk of being stillborn. Matthew Yglesias » Tebow to Alienate Pro Football Fans During Super Bowl
  • The first Rh - baby is OK and any subsequent Rh+ fetus would be stillborn due to attack from the mother's antibodies reacting to testosterone. ProgressiveIslam.Org - Comments
  • Very sadly we also had a stillborn daughter Just after this. Times, Sunday Times
  • And even now, Isolde could see with aching clarity the tiny, waxen face and flowerlike hands of her stillborn baby girl. Dark Moon of Avalon
  • Tragically, about one-third of these babies are stillborn and the rest die in the first days of life.
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