pains

1. n. Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. Source: opted

2. n. an effortful attempt to attain a goal Source: wordnet

3. 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. Source: webster

4. Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural inform, 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. Source: adambom

5. n an effortful attempt to attain a goal n a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder n emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid n a somatic sensation of acute discomfort n a bothersome annoying person n something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness v cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed v cause emotional anguish or make miserable Source: ecdict

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