Definition of Pains

Pronunciation: pānz
n.1.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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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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