pains
See also: Pains, PAINs, and PAINS
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɪnz/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: panes
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.
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Verb
pains
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pain
Derived terms
- be at pains
- take pains
Anagrams
- IP SAN, Pisan, Spain, aspin, nipas, pinas, piñas
French
Noun
pains m
- plural of pain
Anagrams
- pinas, sapin