BIRTH PANGS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth

Synonyms:

birth pangs; labor pains; labour pains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("birth pangs" is a kind of...):

pang (a sharp spasm of pain)

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