Usually means: Come into life; begin existence.
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  1. be born: Vocabulary.com
  2. be born: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. be born: Wiktionary
  4. be born: Dictionary.com
  5. be born: Rhymezone
  6. be born: FreeDictionary.org
  7. be born: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. be born: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. be born: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. be born: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (be born)

▸ verb:  To come into existence through birth.

Similar:
come into the world, begin, birth, bring into being, bring forth, give birth, come to be, come into being, become, come to life, more...

Opposite:
die, expire, pass away, depart, perish

Types:
give birth, deliver, bring forth, bear, more...

Phrases:
to be born in the purple, A Witch Shall be Born, to be born, about to be born, be born out of, more...

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Similar:
come into the world, begin, birth, bring into being, bring forth, give birth, come to be, come into being, become, come to life, more...

Opposite:
die, expire, pass away, depart, perish

Types:
give birth, deliver, bring forth, bear, more...

Phrases:
to be born in the purple, A Witch Shall be Born, to be born, about to be born, be born out of, be born for something, the one who should not be born, more...



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