pains

See also: Pains, PAINs, and PAINS

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪnz/

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• Rhymes: -eɪnz
• Homophone: panes

Noun

pains

1. plural of pain

Noun

2. Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] 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.

Translations

trouble taken to do something

• Latin: opera (la) f
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Verb

pains

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pain

Derived terms

• be at pains
• take pains
• painstaking

Anagrams

• IP SAN, Pisan, Spain, aspin, nipas, pinas, piñas, spina

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French

Noun

pains m

1. plural of pain

Anagrams

• pinas, sapin