pains
English
Pronunciation
Noun
pains
- plural of pain
- (used in plural) Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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
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Verb
pains
- third-person singular simple present indicative of pain
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