Pains

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
pains
    n 1: an effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: {striving},
         {nisus}, {pains}, {strain}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pains \Pains\ (p[=a]nz), n.
   Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in
   form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the
   former.
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         And all my pains is sorted to no proof.  --Shak.
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         The pains they had taken was very great. --Clarendon.
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         The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled.
                                                  --Dryden.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "pains":
      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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