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Stillborn

adjective

Failing to accomplish an intended result. Synonyms: abortive, unsuccessful. "A stillborn plot to assassinate the President"

(of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn.

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"Stillborn" Quotes from Famous Books

... all clear. He had seen me at the moment I saw him, but he, also like a true hunter, had concealed the fact, putting on an air of unconcern till out of sight, when he had run for his life around behind me and amused himself by watching my stillborn trick. ...

— Lobo, Rag and Vixen - Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen • Ernest Seton-Thompson

... others reporting the expulsion of remnants of ectopic pregnancies through the abdominal parietes. Campbell quotes the case of a Polish woman, aged thirty-five, the mother of nine children, most of whom were stillborn, who conceived for the tenth time, the gestation being normal up to the lying-in period. She had pains followed by extraordinary effusion and some blood into the vagina. After various protracted complaints the abdominal tumor ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

Words linked to "Stillborn" : dead, unsuccessful, abortive, stillborn infant, unfruitful