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Pains

Pains Meaning & Definition
Pains Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pains?

[n] an effortful attempt to attain a goal

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pains: nisus | strain | striving

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pains: assiduity | assiduousness | diligence | effort | elbow grease | endeavor | energy | exertion | hard pull | industriousness | industry | long pull | might and main | muscle | nerve and sinew | painstaking | painstakingness | sedulousness | thoroughgoingness | thoroughness | trouble

See Also | attempt | effort | endeavor | endeavour | try

Pains In Webster's Dictionary

\Pains\, n. Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. And all my pains is sorted to no proof. --Shak. The pains they had taken was very great. --Clarendon. The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. --Dryden.

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