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growing pains
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun growing pains has 3 senses
- growing pains(n = noun.state) Array - pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth; Array is a kind of hurting, pain
- growing pains(n = noun.feeling) Array - emotional distress arising during adolescence; Array is a kind of pain, painfulness
- growing pains(n = noun.cognition) Array - problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages); Array is a kind of problem, trouble
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