GESTATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gestate mean? 

• GESTATE (verb)
  The verb GESTATE has 2 senses:

1. have the idea for

2. be pregnant with

  Familiarity information: GESTATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GESTATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they gestate    ... he / she / it gestates   
Past simple: gestated   
Past participle: gestated   
-ing form: gestating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have the idea for

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

conceive; conceptualise; conceptualize; gestate

Context example:

This library was well conceived

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

Derivation:

gestation (the conception and development of an idea or plan)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be pregnant with

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

I am carrying his child

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))