BIRTH PANGS Synonyms

• a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

• a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries

• concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

• productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

• work hard

• strive and make an effort to reach a goal

• undergo the efforts of childbirth

• a state of acute pain

• misery resulting from affliction

• psychological suffering

• feelings of mental or physical pain

• troubled by pain or loss

• very unhappy; full of misery

• concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

• use of physical or mental energy; hard work

• work hard

• (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)

• the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together

• a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds

• the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope

• a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth

• a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth