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Noun cradle has 4 senses
  1. cradle - a baby bed with sides and rockers
    --1 is a kind of     baby bed, baby's bed
    --1 has part: rocker
    Derived forms: verb cradle1, verb cradle3
  2. birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance - where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization"
    --2 is a kind of beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
  3. cradle - birth of a person; "he was taught from the cradle never to cry"
    --3 is a kind of     birth
  4. rocker, cradle - a trough on rockers used by gold miners to shake earth in water in order to separate the gold
    --4 is a kind of trough
    Derived form: verb cradle5
,Verb cradle has 6 senses
  1. cradle - hold gently and carefully; "He cradles the child in his arms"
    --1 is one way to     hold, take hold
    Derived form: noun cradle1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. cradle - bring up from infancy
    --2 is one way to     rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  3. cradle - hold or place in or as if in a cradle; "He cradled the infant in his arms"
    --3 is one way to     hold, take hold
    Derived form: noun cradle1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  4. cradle - cut grain with a cradle scythe
    --4 is one way to     cut
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  5. cradle - wash in a cradle; "cradle gold"
    --5 is one way to     wash, launder
    Derived form: noun cradle4
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  6. cradle - run with the stick
    --6 is one way to     play
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
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