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Feb 14, 2012
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preg•nant



Pronunciation: (preg'nunt), [key]
—adj.
1. having a child or other offspring developing in the body; with child or young, as a woman or female mammal.
2. fraught, filled, or abounding (usually fol. by with): a silence pregnant with suspense.
3. teeming or fertile; rich (often fol. by in): a mind pregnant in ideas.
4. full of meaning; highly significant: a pregnant utterance.
5. of great importance or potential; momentous: a pregnant moment in the history of the world.

preg•nant



Pronunciation: (preg'nunt), [key]
—adj. Archaic.
convincing; cogent: a pregnant argument.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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