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Noun: growing pains
  1. Pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth
     
  2. Emotional distress arising during adolescence
     
  3. Problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages)

Type of: hurting, ill, pain, painfulness, prob [informal], problem, trouble

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