| Pronunciation: | | p'eynz
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| Matching Terms: | | pain, pain behaviour, pain event or painful episode, pain in the ass, pain in the neck, pain in the net, pain pill, pain threshold, pain unit, painable, paine, pained, pain-free, painful, painful sensation, painfully, painfulness, painim, painkiller, painless, painlessly, painstaker, painstaking, painstakingly, painstakingness, painsworthy, paint, paint a picture, paint indian, paint leaf, paint roller, paintable, paintbox, paintbrush, painted, painted beauty, painted cup, painted daisy, painted desert, painted greenling, painted leaf, painted nettle, painted sandgrouse, painted terrapin, painted tongue, painted tortoise, painted turtle, painted-leaf begonia, painter, painterly, painter's colic, paintership, painting, paintless, painture, painty
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| | Definition: | | [n] an effortful attempt to attain a goal |
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| | Synonyms: | | nisus, strain, striving |
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| | See Also: | | attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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