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birth control
CIDE DICTIONARY
birth control, n.
the act or process of deliberately limiting the number of one's children born, especially by preventing conception.
"Conception may be prevented by ingesting medicines, using barriers such as condoms or spermicides during copulation, or by ligating or removing the reproductive organs." [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
birth control
aridity, barrenness, contraception, dearth, dry womb, dryness, family planning, famine, impotence, ineffectualness, infecundity, infertility, planned parenthood, rhythm method, sterileness, sterility, the pill, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, unproductiveness, vasectomy, withered loinsFor further exploring for "birth control" in Webster Dictionary Online