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pains |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pains \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pains n : an effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: {striving}, {nisus}, {strain}]
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