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cradle

Definition

  • noun: a bed for a baby that is usually designed to rock back and forth when pushed gently
  • noun: a bed or cot for a baby usually on rockers or pivots
  • verb: to hold (something or someone) gently in your arms or hands
  • verb: to place or keep in or as if in a cradle
  • sometimes used figuratively
  • synonyms: rocker, rest

Examples

  • She was 'cradling' the injured man's head in her arms.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) a bunch of nigra agitators attempting to orchestrate a disturbance in this state. Not as long as I'm governor. Now, I stand here today in the cradle of the Confederacy to remind its people of our Founding Fathers' goals of duty. Goals long since forgotten by progressives and liberals (..)
    2014 Selma