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Antonyms for cradle

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : kreyd-l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkreɪd l

Definition of cradle

Origin :
  • c.1200, cradel, from Old English cradol "little bed, cot," from Proto-Germanic *kradulas "basket" (cf. Old High German kratto, krezzo "basket," German Krätze "basket carried on the back"). Cat's cradle is from 1768. Cradle-snatching "amorous pursuit of younger person" is 1925, U.S. slang.
  • noun small bed for baby
  • noun early childhood; origins
  • verb hold in arms; nurture
Example sentences :
  • They had cared for him in his cradle; he followed them to their graves.
  • Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
  • Rock, rock, went the cradle, and mother and child slept; but alas!
  • Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
  • Emilia looked as innocent as when Hope had tended her in the cradle.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • You'll find him rocking the cradle of Tippoo Wellington, my youngest son!
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • Her life, claimed by the open air, had its reward—the saddle is no cradle for weaklings.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • Even while he was an infant in the cradle a strange accident had befallen hum.
  • Extract from : « Biographical Stories » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Eudora jogged the cradle gently with her foot, and both were still.
  • Extract from : « The Yates Pride » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • Even when an infant, and in your cradle, you had a soul for poetry.
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 » by Various
  • Three times the cradle was filled, and each time with a baby boy.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • I want to help you all I can, but what I came here for is to get the little boy in the cradle.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis

Synonyms for cradle

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