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birth pangs

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birth pang
n.
1. One of the repetitive pains occurring in childbirth. Often used in the plural.
2. birth pangs Difficulty or turmoil associated with a development or transition: the birth pangs of an emergent democracy.
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Noun1.birth pangs - a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth
labor pains, labour pains
pang - a sharp spasm of pain


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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's comment that Israel's Lebanon war represented "the birth pangs of a new Middle East" was, according to Judt, profoundly disastrous for the U.
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Travelers' tales and the ancients were also incorporated, inspiring such hopeful remedies as eating a wolf's liver to relieve birth pangs (it only worked if the wolf survived).
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