WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

give birth
    v 1: cause to be born; "My wife had twins yesterday!" [syn:
         give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have]
    2: create or produce an idea; "Marx and Engels gave birth to
       communism"

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "give birth":
   animate, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young,
   breathe life into, bring into being, bring into existence,
   bring to life, call into being, call into existence, calve, cast,
   conceive, drop, endow with life, energize, farrow, fawn, foal,
   give life to, have, have a baby, have young, inspirit, kitten,
   labor, lamb, lie in, litter, pup, quicken, throw, travail,
   vitalize, vivify, whelp, yean