gestate

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: ges=tate

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gestate, v.tr.
1 carry (a foetus) in gestation.
2 develop (an idea etc.).

THESAURUS

gestate

author, be gravid, be knocked up, be pregnant, be with child, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring to effect, bring to pass, brood, carry, carry young, cause, conceive, cover, create, do, effect, effectuate, engender, establish, father, found, generate, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, hatch, inaugurate, incubate, institute, make, occasion, originate, produce, realize, set, set afloat, set on foot, set up, sire, sit, work