"accouche" meaning in English

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          "text": "If a woman be accouched or die in the house of her parents, the parents are unclean for three days, and the brother for one.",
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        "To aid in an accouchement; to assist (a mother) in the birth (of a child)."
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        "(transitive, dated) To aid in an accouchement; to assist (a mother) in the birth (of a child)."
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          "text": "After the elaboration of a fact, the most magnificent in all its proportions and most complete in all its details; after accouching a monster such as the world never saw equalled in extent, a leviathan of a lie […]",
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          "text": "that immortalized yet unborn Thane of Fife who, invulnerable to normally accouched swordsmen, laid on and slew Macbeth",
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          "text": "The Sumu woman […] accouches in a corner of the hut, which has been screened off either with bark cloth or with thatch.",
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        "To give birth (to a child); (figuratively) to bring into the world."
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        "(ambitransitive, dated) To give birth (to a child); (figuratively) to bring into the world."
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