Usually means: Carrying and developing offspring internally.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. gestating: Merriam-Webster
  2. gestating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gestating: Vocabulary.com
  4. gestating: Wordnik
  5. gestating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gestating: Wiktionary
  7. gestating: Dictionary.com
  8. gestating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gestating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gestating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. gestating: Medical dictionary

(Note: See gestate 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.
▸ Also see gestate


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