Word Meanings - UNCHILD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To bereave of children; to make childless. Shak. 2. To make unlike a child; to divest of the characteristics of a child. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to UNCHILD)

• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• CHILDCROWING
  The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
• UNLIKEN
  To make unlike; to dissimilate. Wyclif.
• DIVESTURE
  Divestiture.
• CHILDBED
  The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
• DIVEST
  See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess;
• UNLIKELIHOOD
  Absence of likelihood.
• CHILDISHLY
  In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
• CHILDREN
  pl. of Child.
• CHILDING
  Bearing Children; productive; fruitful. Shak.
• BEREAVEMENT
  The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.
• CHILDHOOD
  1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. I have walked before you from my childhood. 1. Sam. xii. 2. 2. Children, taken collectively. The well-governed childhood of this
• CHILDNESS
  The manner characteristic of a child. "Varying childness." Shak.
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• STEPCHILD
  1. A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother. 2. A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• UNCHILD
  1. To bereave of children; to make childless. Shak. 2. To make unlike a child; to divest of the characteristics of a child. Bp. Hall.