pains

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See also: Pains, PAINs, and PAINS

English

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Noun

pains

  1. plural of pain

Noun

pains pl (plural only)

  2. Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
    • , Anna Sewell, “A London Cab Horse”, in Black Beauty: , London: Jarrold and Sons, , →OCLC, part III, page 158:
      Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably, as if he had been John Manly over again.
    • 1918, W B Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. […] Next day she […] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.

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Verb

pains

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pain

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French

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Noun

pains m

  1. plural of pain

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Middle French

Noun

pains m

  1. plural of pain
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