pains
/peɪnz/ noun B1- Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
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Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.
Wolf!” and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains.
A HORSE SOLDIER took the utmost pains with his charger.
Of course they took pains not to light on his head and get the pins in their feet.
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