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adjective
- Dead at birth (also in figurative sense, as of plan, plot, etc.)
- "stillborn lamb"
- "a stillborn plot of coup d'état"
- That has failed to attract an audience (as of a motion picture, music album, show, or electronic game)
- "a stillborn movie"
Translations: - Dutch: doodgeboren
- French: mort-né , morte-née
- German: totgeboren
- Italian: nato morto , nata morta
- Spanish: nato muerto , nata muerta
Etymology: First attested w:1597, 1597, from English still + born.
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