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BIRTH PANGS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does birth pangs mean?
• BIRTH PANGS (noun)
The noun BIRTH PANGS has 1 sense:
1. a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth
Familiarity information: BIRTH PANGS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
birth pangs; labor pains; labour pains
Hypernyms ("birth pangs" is a kind of...):
pang (a sharp spasm of pain)
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