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English

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Noun

pains


Verb

pains


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French

Noun


fr:pains vi:pains zh:pains

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pains \Pains\ (p[=a]nz), n.
Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in
form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the
former.
[1913 Webster]

And all my pains is sorted to no proof. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

The pains they had taken was very great. --Clarendon.
[1913 Webster]

The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet pains
n : an effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: striving, nisus,
strain]
Moby Dictionary
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


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