English

Alternative forms

• enwomb

Verb

inwomb ‎(third-person singular simple present inwombs, present participle inwombing, simple past and past participle inwombed)

1. To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.

   • 1881, Elizabeth Wilson, quoting Sir Nathaniel Bacon, 1647, Lights and Shadows of Ancient European Mythology, Language and History, Reprint edition, Kessinger Publishing, published 2003, ISBN 9780766159105, page 300:

     It was long before the Son of God was inwombed,…

2. To enclose, inwrap

   • 1854, Stephen Henry Bradbury, Edenor: A Dramatic Poem, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 61:

     Its faith dies like the inwombed fire of earth, …

   • 2008 March 30, Nellie, “You've got to take your mind off him”, in Let Loose Nellie, retrieved 2012-08-27:

     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, Cambridge Univ Press, ISBN 9780521109987, page 18:

     … epitomizes in his impairment the witchery of the mother … with no access to the outside, he becomes, in effect, inwombed by her.

   • 2010 November 12, Derick Van Dusen, “TokeATee Come”, in Hello Poetry, retrieved 2012-08-27:

     Dip under feel that warmth envelope you, cocooned again, inwombed again.