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cradle

English

  1. 🔊 a baby bed with sides and rockers
  2. 🔊 birth of a person
    “he was taught from the cradle never to cry”
  3. 🔊 a trough that can be rocked back and forth
  4. 🔊 where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
    “the birthplace of civilization”
  5. 🔊 run with the stick
  6. 🔊 hold gently and carefully
    “He cradles the child in his arms”
  7. 🔊 wash in a cradle
    “cradle gold”
  8. 🔊 cut grain with a cradle scythe
  9. 🔊 hold or place in or as if in a cradle
    “He cradled the infant in his arms”
  10. 🔊 bring up from infancy

Spanish

  1. 🔊 cuna cradle, crib

Similar words

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