GESTATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they gestate ... he / she / it gestates

Past simple: gestated

Past participle: gestated

-ing form: gestating

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be pregnant with

Example:

I am carrying his child

Synonyms:

bear; carry; expect; gestate; have a bun in the oven

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "gestate" is one way to...):

bear; birth; deliver; give birth; have (cause to be born)

"Gestate" entails doing...:

conceive (become pregnant; undergo conception)

Verb group:

bear; birth; deliver; give birth; have (cause to be born)

expect (look forward to the birth of a child)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

gestation (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)

gestation (the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Have the idea for

Example:

This library was well conceived

Synonyms:

conceive; conceptualise; conceptualize; gestate

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "gestate" is one way to...):

create by mental act; create mentally (create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gestate"):

design (conceive or fashion in the mind; invent)

preconceive (conceive beforehand)

discover; find (make a discovery, make a new finding)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP