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View synonyms for birth pangs

birth pangs

plural noun

  1. pains associated with the process of childbirth.
  2. Informal. the hardships and difficulties accompanying a major innovation, change, or new venture.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of birth pangs1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

It is decreed of mothers that their birth pangs shall not cease until they die.

In anguish, fear, and humiliation had his love been born, but the birth-pangs had been as brief as they were intense.

They are striving earnestly and successfully to adjust conditions created in the birth pangs of a social revolution.

The birth-pangs of Democracy, wherewith convulsed Europe was groaning in cries that reached Heaven, could not escape me.

The curtains of the dark are already shaken by the birth-pangs of the morning.

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