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gestating

ADJECTIVE
gravid
Synonyms
WEAK
abundant anticipating big carrying a child childbearing enceinte expectant expecting fecund fertile fraught fruitful heavy hopeful in a family way in family way parous parturient preggers productive prolific replete teeming with ch
ADJECTIVE
in the family way
Synonyms
WEAK
anticipating carrying expecting heavy with child knocked-up with child
ADJECTIVE
parturient
Synonyms
WEAK
abundant anticipating big carrying a child enceinte expectant expecting fecund fertile fraught fruitful gravid heavy hopeful in a family way in family way parous preggers productive prolific replete teeming with child
ADJECTIVE
pregnant
Synonyms
WEAK
abundant anticipating carrying a child childbearing enceinte expectant expecting fecund fertile fraught fruitful gravid heavy hopeful in family way parous parturient preggers productive prolific replete teeming with child

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These tools also allow women tasked with gestating children, caring for infants, and doing housework to not be completely consumed by it.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2026

But the movie’s thoughts about pain and devotion and locker-room manipulation are still gestating.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

Long before the emergence of a winged protagonist who transports powerful orbs across the mysterious landscape of Cocoon, the adventure video game was an abstract computer science exercise gestating in its creator’s head.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2023

Then LTW tells Charlotte she's gestating a human on top of everything else, but Charlotte doubles down anyway.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2023

But she is gestating, and gestation with her is always perturbing.

From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus