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UK
/stˈɪlbɔːn/
]
[ US /ˈstɪɫˈbɔɹn/ ]
[ US /ˈstɪɫˈbɔɹn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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failing to accomplish an intended result
an abortive revolt
a stillborn plot to assassinate the President -
(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.