Birth and End

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Birth noun - The point at which something begins.

Usage example: that 12-second flight by Orville Wright marked the birth of aviation

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End is an antonym for birth in topics: childbirth, heritage, beginning, becoming alive.

Nearby Words: birthday, birthing

End noun - The permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities.

Usage example: Henry Hudson and eight others were set adrift in the bay in a small boat, and how they met their end is unknown

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Birth is an antonym for end in topics: intention, death, extreme, completion, leftover part.

Nearby Words: ending, ended, endless

high	high birth	high end
low	low birth	low end
similar	similar birth	similar end
normal	normal birth	normal end
Other adjectives: natural, original, true, actual, violent, dark, early, inevitable, impending, last, literal, premature, sudden.

Eugene and Sara Greenhilt's contraceptive spell fails in The Order of the Stick, leading to the protagonist's unplanned birth and the end of his mother's freewheeling lifestyle (until she got to the afterlife, anyway!)

Source: Law of Inverse Fertility
Death by Childbirth: All white-eyes are born too large and end up killing their mothers at birth.

Source: Literature / The Twilight Reign
After the birth of Miles, near the end of Barrayar, Count Piotr says that he wishes that Mad Emperor Yuri's death squad had killed Aral, instead of his older brother.

Source: You Should Have Died Instead

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