Meaning | Come into existence through birth. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
Narrower | come to life, come into being | be born or come into existence |
fall | be born, used chiefly of lambs | |
hatch | emerge from the eggs | |
reincarnate, transmigrate | be born anew in another body after death | |
Broader | change state, turn | Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action |
Opposite | die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
Spanish | nacer | |
Catalan | néixer | |
Nouns | birth | the event of being born |
birth | the process of giving birth | |
birth | the time when something begins (especially life) |
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