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Pains   /peɪnz/   Listen
Pains

noun
1.
An effortful attempt to attain a goal.  Synonyms: nisus, strain, striving.



Pain

noun
1.
A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder.  Synonym: hurting.
2.
Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.  Synonym: painfulness.
3.
A somatic sensation of acute discomfort.  Synonyms: pain sensation, painful sensation.
4.
A bothersome annoying person.  Synonyms: nuisance, pain in the neck.
5.
Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness.  Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain in the ass, pain in the neck.  "A bit of a bother" , "He's not a friend, he's an infliction"
verb
(past & past part. pained; pres. part. paining)
1.
Cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed.  Synonyms: ail, trouble.
2.
Cause emotional anguish or make miserable.  Synonyms: anguish, hurt.



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"Pains" Quotes from Famous Books



... should be conceded the right to bring up the "child!" That is a task for the psychologist, because he can afford to go deeper into normal processes than has so far been possible in psycho-analytic practice. But he must take pains to employ those scientific methods which comport the rigorous application of logic even to the vagaries of dreams, and the rejection of the argument from mere authority. Of such methods, the exemplars ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... last subtlety of expression and end of thread that could be got into the space, far off or near. But now our ingenuity is all "concerning smoke." Nothing is truly drawn but that; all else is vague, slight, imperfect; got with as little pains as possible. You examine your closest foreground, and find no leaves; your largest oak, and find no acorns; your human figure, and find a spot of red paint instead of a face; and in all this, again and again, the Aristophanic words come true, and the clouds seem ...
— Selections From the Works of John Ruskin • John Ruskin

... not meant to be driven together. It is hard to weep aright over Isopel Berners. The reader is tortured by a sense of duty towards her. This distraction prevents our giving ourselves away to Borrow. Perhaps after all he did meet the tall girl in the dingle, in which case he was a fool for all his pains, losing a gift the gods ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow

... unconsciously, into our judgment of this costume, in which we see that Nature is deliberately departed from; and our condemnation of it in this particular respect is strengthened by the perception, at a glance, that great pains have been taken to make its outlines discordant with those of the part which they conceal. You qualified your censure of Marguerite's dress partly because, in her case, the slope of the shoulder is preserved until the very junction ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various

... he did not believe her, until he suddenly felt terrible pains, which soon grew unbearable, so that he fell to the ground unconscious. His wife at once hung him up by the feet from the beam of the roof, and put a panful of glowing charcoal under his body, and a great jar of water, into which she had poured sesame oil, in ...
— The Chinese Fairy Book • Various


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