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growing pains

nounB2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

Growing pains are aches in the legs that children get as they grow. Complain of growing pains.

They come in the evening and are gone by morning, which is the pattern that identifies them. Growing pains are also said of the difficulties any new organisation goes through.

Warner Bros. Television Studios · Public domain

Definitions of growing pains

  1. 1noungrowing painsAches in the legs that children get as they grow.B2

    “The growing pains woke him about twice a week for a year.”

growing pains is a pain.

Practised in Babies & Growing Up

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