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cradle English

Meaning cradle meaning

What does cradle mean?

cradle

— verb hold gently and carefully He cradles the child in his arms — noun a baby bed with sides and rockers — noun (= birthplace) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence the birthplace of civilization — noun birth of a person he was taught from the cradle never to cry — verb run with the stick — verb bring up from infancy — verb cut grain with a cradle scythe — verb wash in a cradle cradle gold — verb hold or place in or as if in a cradle He cradled the infant in his arms — noun (= rocker) a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold

Synonyms cradle synonyms

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cradle English » English

crib rocker swing rock cot birthplace baby bed hold hammock bassinet source provenience provenance place of origin nurture lullaby lull carrier winch frame ultimate trundle tabling table concentrator table stretcher small bed shelter shaking table shaker shake seat safety net saddle rock to sleep rest protection network protecting net pedestal pallet nurse nestle matrix lug support infancy homeland handle gudgeon guard net guard cradle frame

Topics cradle topics

What do people use cradle to talk about?
Person Life Stage of life Baby

Care for a baby
Physical actions Move something

Carry

Conjugation cradle conjugation

How do you conjugate cradle?

cradle · verb

Examples cradle examples

How do I use cradle in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Look at the baby sleeping in the cradle.
The baby soon fell asleep in the cradle.
The baby fell asleep in the cradle.
The baby lay sleeping in the cradle.
A baby is sleeping in the cradle.
The baby is sleeping in the cradle.
The baby was sleeping in the cradle.
The Middle East is the cradle of civilization.
I was a child, I remember, my mother would rock me in the cradle.
Greece was the cradle of western civilization.
Hope is the walking stick, from the cradle to the grave.
Africa is the cradle of humanity.
Africa is the cradle of mankind.
The king exchanged his baby, a beautiful boy, for the daughter of a peasant, and the prince lived roughly as the son of poor people, while the little girl slept in a golden cradle, under silken sheets.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
Look at the cute little baby sleeping in the cradle.
The baby in the cradle is very cute.

Movie subtitles

It's Autumn Cradle.
A cradle song.
You must be robbing the cradle.
Kyoto Imperial University, cradle of freedom!
Cradle, or what?
Cradle will do.
No jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle, where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, the air is delicate.
Willie couldn't steal a vote f rom Abe Lincoln in the cradle of the Confederacy.
If your carpetbag riffraff doesn't choke her to death in her cradle.
The ancient world, the world before grace, rocked her in its cradle. For centuries its old hands protected the wondrous young girl whose name it didn't even know.
You must have been kissed in your cradle by a vulture.
And there are moments, my dear Petronius when music caresses my soul. I feel as gentle as a child in a cradle.
Mr Cook is almost what the bad fairy promised Frank at his cradle.
I didn't go straight from the cradle to a gold camp.
We have been fighting since I was in the cradle and many years before.
The biggest little city in the world, American cradle of liberty.
Then we hear from his cradle a little Martin crying.
Then he had to chop off the top of the joists to make room for the cradle.
So Retch had to get the plumber back, take out a section to get the cradle set.
I feel as gentle as a child in a cradle.
He hasn't thought anything but circus since he fell out of the cradle.
Individuality is a monster, and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
The cradle is gone!
Yours was the face I saw above my cradle, the only mother I've ever known.
It sounds like a schoolboy trying to make a date. You must be robbing the cradle.
Nature so arranges it that when a woman ls in your condition, clouds are like rainbows and all the world ls like a cradle.
Rough cradle for such little pretty ones.
Cradle?
Every cradle.
I'll have the royal woodcarvers start work on the cradle tomorrow.
Tomorrow I'll make a cradle for him.
But my cradle was 100 gutters.
Cradle of civilization.
She's always known, since the cradle, that her destiny was secured to that of Trans-Continental Airways.
There is enough H-section in the cargo monorail and hull longerons to make up the skid cradle for takeoff.

News and current affairs

With Europe in a cyclical upswing, tax revenues should start rising even without higher tax rates, so why risk strangling the continent's nascent recovery in the cradle?
The carrot of international assistance and the stick of peacekeeping forces will allegedly prevent Karzai's government from dying in the cradle.
And, as the cradle of the world's first democracy, Greece needs other symbols of national renewal than scepters and robes.
It is astounding to think that the world mobilized immediately to push Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991, but has dithered for more than two years as tens of thousands of Syrians have been killed, and their country, a cradle of civilization, laid waste.
For Russians, America was an evil empire, the world of capitalist exploitation and a nuclear superpower, but also a cradle of economic prosperity and individual freedom.
For America, Russia, too, was an evil empire, the world of communist expansionism and a nuclear superpower, but also a cradle of science, spirit, and soul.
Indeed, pious Catholic Italian city-states were the cradle of early modern capitalism.
The cat's cradle of connections between Russia and the Caucasus are centuries old and impossible to cut.
The old notion that large companies are responsible for their employees' welfare from cradle to grave - providing not only wages and bonuses, but sports facilities, cheap holidays, and generous retirement benefits - fell into desuetude.
Were that to occur, Obama's planned rapprochement with Iran would be strangled in the cradle.
But policymakers seem trapped in a cat's cradle of economic, political, and legal constraints that is preventing effective action.
In fact, Iran's current government is attempting to overthrow a balance of power that has endured for some 1,400 years - and Saudi Arabia, as the cradle of the Muslim world, will not allow it.
Sixty-five years after Lord Beveridge trusted the state to hold our hand from cradle to grave, Cameron and Osborne have asked us to stand more or less alone on our own two feet.
SAN MARCOS - You may know Peru as the cradle of Incan civilization.
What began as a democratic uprising against Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship has developed into a cat's cradle of conflicts, partly reflecting a brutal proxy struggle among Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia for regional domination.
The cat's cradle of connections between Russia and the Caucasus are centuries old and impossible to cut. Russia's presence runs deeper than the troops it maintains in the area.
The Chad-Cameroon pipeline project is one African project that wasn't strangled in the cradle, and it cannot be allowed to fail.

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