Usually means: Painful contractions during childbirth onset.
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  1. birth pangs: Merriam-Webster
  2. birth pangs: Vocabulary.com
  3. birth-pangs: Wordnik
  4. birth pangs: Wiktionary
  5. birth pangs: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. birth pangs: Dictionary.com
  7. birth pangs: Rhymezone
  8. birth pangs: FreeDictionary.org
  9. birth pangs: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. birth pangs: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. birth pangs: Legal dictionary

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  1. birth pangs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. birth pangs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. birth pangs: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (birth pangs)

▸ noun:  (by extension) The difficulty associated with a new project.

Similar:
labor pains, labour pains, growing pains, prebirth, parturience, preparenthood, oncome, early innings, afterpain, early days, more...

Opposite:
death throes, decline, decay, dissolution

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Similar:
labor pains, labour pains, growing pains, prebirth, parturience, preparenthood, oncome, early innings, afterpain, early days, more...

Opposite:
death throes, decline, decay, dissolution



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