• Inwomb

    Alternative forms

    Origin

    From - + womb.

    Full definition of inwomb

    Verb

    1. To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
    2. To enclose, inwrap
      • 1854 , Stephen Henry Bradbury , Edenor: A Dramatic Poem Chapter , Its faith dies like the inwombed fire of earth, …
      • , 2008-03-30, Nellie, You've got to take your mind off him, The way the bathtub works is that you have to kind of get natal, zygotey, inwombed, stupid with white noise and tranquil with heat. You have to let the calentura run through you, ripple your rippled waters still. You have to pretend that what’s in you is being sweated out, purified.
      • 2009 , Katherine Kearns , Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite Chapter , … epitomizes in his impairment the witchery of the mother … with no access to the outside, he becomes, in effect, inwombed by her.
      • , 2010-11-12, Derick Van Dusen, TokeATee Come, Dip under feel that warmth envelope you, cocooned again, inwombed again.
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