NOUN
- emotional distress arising during adolescence
- pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth
- problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages)
How To Use growing pains In A Sentence
- Support and reassurance that growing pains will pass as children grow up can help them relax.
- There's some sympathy for this new country's growing pains, but that sympathy is fast wearing out.
- But it comes as the adware business is having growing pains, according to many investors. Globe and Mail
- Aura's growing pains are witty on the strength of the film Dunham is currently working on an HBO pilot with producer Judd Apatow, and so demographically acute that some have mistaken the film as merely "relatable," when a better word would be "resonant. Lena Dunham, Director Of 'Tiny Furniture' On Directing Herself
- The business is still suffering from growing pains.
- Others suspect that these are simply the growing pains of a new superpower finding its way on the world stage. Times, Sunday Times
- All new industries have growing pains but few face the challenges of biotechnology.
- But the growing pains of the organization rippled through the conference and informal discussions.
- As she coaxed out my tale of hypochondria and patiently explained the phenomenon of growing pains, my mother rocked me in her arms.
- Growing pains My elder son turns 18 today. Times, Sunday Times
