Synonym: nisus, strain, striving. Similar words: take pains, painstaking, painstakingly, against the grain, pain, paint, spain, paints. Meaning: [peɪn] n. an effortful attempt to attain a goal.
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181 Any new show goes through a lot of growing pains.
182 Athelstan studied the jars, dismissing them as nothing but mild cures for ague, aches and pains.
183 Steve Nash is nursing various aches and pains, including a sore hamstring.
184 He is an engineer who came to study the spine because of his own back pains.
185 Thomas Bailey, 72, of Lancashire, had been near the summit of Ingleborough when he collapsed with severe chest pains.
186 Writers in the early art and photographic journals were at pains to define its precise meaning.
187 Labour pains A more flexible labour market has not stopped pay going up.
188 It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years.
189 But the company is experiencing growing pains as competition heats up.
190 The farmer took a cigarette for his pains and refused food.
191 Feminists who recognize this contradiction are pilloried for their pains.
192 The medicine was supposed to cure all kinds of ailments, ranging from colds to back pains.
193 The greater your mobility the less likely you will be to suffer aches and pains brought on by stiffness.
194 The skin around the wound grew taut, and shooting pains nearly made Gao Ma cry out.
195 However, composers often go to great pains to keep to true intervals.
196 They had so many aches and pains, we never expected them to play with us.
197 A year on they acknowledge the problems, but are at pains to defend the good name of their community.
198 He is at pains to stress that conflict, another cause of poverty[sentencedict.com], resolves nothing.
199 As well as Swindon's economic ills, she's hoping Dons can help cure her back pains.
200 Designers have been at pains to ensure the Cornmill is not just a covered shopping mall.
201 Anyone with chest pains should also go to the doctor, especially if the pain goes down the arm.
202 Suddenly like Matisse in a three-piece suit and consultant's white coat, I take infinite pains to keep this model alive.
203 Once the lactic acid is dealt with, those aches and pains should not be as bad.
204 Music is magically powerful, soulfully rich, spiritually resourceful, emotionally versatile, psychologically and physically therapeutic. Music makes people feel, think, act and change. Music makes people feel good, relaxes and improves the soul, heart and mind, boosts the immune system, and reduces emotional and physical pains. Dr T.P.Chia
205 And many corporate mail servers have had growing pains, experiencing holdups and the odd deletion, especially over weekends.
206 The Raiders had several ailing players roaming the sideline, nursing aches and pains.
207 For his pains in defending Paisley, Boal was fired from his lucrative job as counsel to the Attorney-General.
208 Grandma said that apart from a few aches and pains she was feeling quite well.
209 His excruciating pains of confinement make mine pale into humbling insignificance.
210 Florida escaped the pains of the lagging economy nationwide elsewhere because the state has such a small manufacturing base.
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