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LABOR PAINS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does labor pains mean?

• LABOR PAINS (noun)
The noun LABOR PAINS has 1 sense:

1. a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth

Familiarity information: LABOR PAINS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LABOR PAINS (noun)

Sense 1

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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 ("labor pains" is a kind of...):

pang (a sharp spasm of pain)

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