Meaning of PAINS
| Pronunciation: | | p'eynz
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| | Definition: | | [n] an effortful attempt to attain a goal |
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| | Synonyms: | | nisus, strain, striving |
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| | See Also: | | attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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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