Meanings
pains1
- pluralplural of pain
- pluralplural onlyTrouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably, as if he had been John Manly over again.
[1877], Anna Sewell, “A London Cab Horse”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part III, page 1581 more example
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 perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of pain
Pains2
- pluralplural of Pain
PAINS3
- pluralplural of PAIN
PAINs4
- pluralplural of PAIN
Synonyms & antonyms
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Translations
Latin opera
- operatrouble taken to do something
Rhymes & wordplay
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