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noun
- the circumstance or situation of a woman giving birth to a child; parturition: to lie in childbed.
noun
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- (often preceded by in)the condition of giving birth to a child
- (as modifier)childbed fever
also child-bed, c.1200, “state of being in labor,” from child + bed (n.). In reference to a bed, real or metaphorical, on which something is born, from 1590s.