pregnant

pregnant
preg‧nant S3 /ˈpreɡnənt/ adjective
1. if a woman or female animal is pregnant, she has an unborn baby growing inside her body ⇨ pregnancy:
    medical care for pregnant women
    I knew right away that I was pregnant.
    I thought I was too old to get pregnant.
    twenty weeks/three months etc pregnant
    She’s about five months pregnant.
    pregnant with
    Maria was pregnant with her second child.
    I didn’t mean to get her pregnant (=make her pregnant).
    His wife was heavily pregnant (=almost ready to give birth).
2. pregnant pause/silence a pause or silence which is full of meaning or emotion:
    He stopped, and there was a pregnant pause.
3. pregnant with something formal containing a lot of a quality:
    Every phrase in this poem is pregnant with meaning.
     

COLLOCATIONS

■ verbs
   ▪ become pregnant Sally became pregnant, and gave birth to a baby son.
   ▪ get pregnant informal (=become pregnant) She got pregnant when she was sixteen.
   ▪ get somebody pregnant (=make a woman pregnant, usually without planning to) At least he didn't get you pregnant.
■ adverbs
   ▪ twelve weeks pregnant/two months pregnant etc The doctor said that she was eight weeks pregnant.
   ▪ heavily pregnant (=having almost reached the time when you will give birth) I saw at once that the woman was heavily pregnant.