get (someone) with child
obsolete To get someone pregnant. A tremendous scandal has rocked the small provincial town, when it emerged that the local lord has gotten a peasant woman with child. Is it true that Lord Ridley has gotten his wife with child? A son, of course, would inherit all of this land. You can't admit that you've gotten me with child, we're not married!
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