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UK
/dʒɪstˈeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈdʒɛsˌteɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒɛsˌteɪt/ ]
VERB
-
be pregnant with
She is bearing his child
The are expecting another child in January
I am carrying his child -
have the idea for
He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients
This library was well conceived
How To Use gestate In A Sentence
- The baby is a clone of the 30-year-old American woman who donated the DNA for the cloning process, had the resulting embryo implanted and then gestated the baby.
- The new embryo would then be implanted in the uterus of a pregnant mouse, chimpanzee, or human to gestate until birth.
- In my book Animal Factory, I write about how farmers in Sweden have developed humane ways for pregnant sows to gestate and "farrow" -- or give birth and nurse their young. David Kirby: Humane Society Exposes Pig Breeding Horrors -- But It Doesn't Have to Be This Way
- The fruitcakes gestate side-by-side in the extra refrigerator in my garage. Lindsay Pyfer: Homemade Fruitcake: Old School And Worth The Effort
- Conceived by computer, gestated in committee, and about to be delivered unto Congress. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
- A vast amount of stone buildings gestate the characteristic style and features of residential building in Huian coastal areas.
- One person - the father - contributes genetic material and the other - the mother - contributes genetic material as well as gestates and gives birth to the child.
- Here's some stuff I didn't know before going to the lengths I went to to become pregnant: these kids gestate for ten months, not nine.
- Investors have shied away from chip companies because they take more time and money to gestate than other start-ups. Chip Firm Gains Sizable Infusion
- In similar experiments, scientists in Spain have produced live ibex kids from ibex embryos implanted and gestated in domestic goats.
