Alternativa stavningar

Synonymer

Uttal

    • IPA: /stɪlbɔ:n/
ÖversättningKontext
Adjektiv
1.dödfödd {en}figurliga ord

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Dead at birth.
  2. (figuratively, by extension) Ignored, without influence, or unsuccessful from the outset; abortive.

Exempel

  • Queen Anne, before Elizabeth, bore a still-born son.
  • Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?
  • This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year. . . . Of these some were stillborn, but the majority hold the market.
  • His lips framed themselves to whistle the first bars of a popular song, but the sound died stillborn.

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