Usually means: Develop in the womb; incubate.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. gestate: Merriam-Webster
  2. gestate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gestate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gestate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gestate: Vocabulary.com
  6. gestate: Wordnik
  7. gestate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gestate: Wiktionary
  9. gestate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gestate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gestate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gestate: Dictionary.com
  13. Gestate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. gestate: Rhymezone
  15. gestate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. gestate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. gestate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gestate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gestate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gestate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. gestate: Medical dictionary

(Note: See gestated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gestate)

verb:  (intransitive) To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery.
verb:  (by extension, intransitive) To develop an idea.

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