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growing pains

  1. recurrent pains in the joints and muscles, esp. of the legs, of growing children: a loose term with no precise medical meaning
  2. difficulties experienced in the early development of a person, project, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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