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English Dictionary: pains by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pains
n
  1. an effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: striving, nisus, pains, strain]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pains \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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