The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 11 letter word CONTRACTION which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2014.
Beginning of labor, and, in another sense, the beginning of each answer to a starred clue crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CONTRACTION | 100 % | 11 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Beginning of labor, and, in another sense, the beginning of each answer to a starred clue
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Crossword Answer definitions
CONTRACTION noun- A reversible reduction in size.
- A period of economic decline or negative growth.
- A shortening of a muscle when it is used.
- A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
- A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
- (English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
- A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
- The process of contracting a disease.
- Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
- The acquisition of something, generally negative.
- A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
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