Word Finder - pains

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An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.

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I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.

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The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress

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In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.

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(from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.

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Your mother is a right pain.

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Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

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You may not leave this room on pain of death.

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(chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

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To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.

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The wound pained him.

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To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

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It pains me to say that I must let you go.

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To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

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Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

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gammon pain; Spanish pain

Shall we with pains erect a heaven of blue glass over ourselves, though when it is done we shall be sure to gaze still at the true ethereal heaven far above, as if the former were not?

The distinction between these two was made emphatic by Aquinas, who is at pains, especially in his treatise Contra Gentiles, to make it plain that each is a distinct fountain of knowledge, but that revelation is the more important of the two.

Being together just felt right and I'm sure you felt it, too… the thought of being away from you pains me.

One of life's growing pains.

It always pains me to see some preferred outcomes involving the innocent.

A new parliament was called to meet at Oxford, to avoid the influences of the city of London, where Shaftesbury had taken the greatest pains to make himself popular.

It must excite our surprise that one who used his pen so freely should have escaped the pains and penalties which invariably overtook minor offenders in the same kind.

Life is sweet, and most men have more pleasures than pains in their lives.

Also that being applied for the dead, it is a satisfaction, that is to say, earns for them remission of the pains of purgatory."

The uncomfortable figure in the Bodleian Library does not give much help. Sir John Malcolm has been at some pains to invest his portrait of Timur with individuality.

Accordingly, those who control the local organizations usually take pains to keep on the lists all the voters whom they can trust, and are apt to keep off those whom they think likely to show a dangerous independence.

The large fish-ponds, an indispensable adjunct to any ecclesiastical foundation, on the formation of which the monks lavished extreme care and pains, and which often remain as almost the only visible traces of these vast establishments, were placed outside the abbey walls.

As he says at the end of the Sophistical Elenchi on the syllogism, he had no predecessor, but took pains and laboured a long time in investigating it.

As the father was resolved that John should have everything that money and pains could give, and was one day to be a bishop at least, he entered him at Christ Church, Oxford, as a gentleman-commoner - then an order reserved for men of wealth and rank.

The author spent a world of pains in having these brought up to the highest perfection of the reproductive art, and began the system of exquisite illustration, and those facsimiles of his own and other sketches, which make his works rank so high in the catalogues and price-lists of collectors.

In 1525 More was appointed chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, and no pains were spared to attach him to the court.

He took no pains to temper the zeal of his legates, but incited them to the struggle, and, not content with prohibiting lay investiture and simony, expressly forbade prelates and even priests to pay homage to the civil power.

Jacob Grimm, in the first paragraph of c. 37 of his Deutsche Mythologie, writing with his own fellow-countrymen in view, has commended Pliny for condescending, in the midst of his survey of the sciences of botany and zoology, to tell of the folklore of plants and animals, and has even praised him for the pains that he bestowed on his style.

He devoted infinite pains and thought to the reform of government both in England and Normandy.

He inured himself to the vicissitudes of heat and cold, and voluntarily suffered the pains or inconveniences of hunger and thirst, fatigue and sleeplessness.

While it is true that very diverse opinions are held concerning missions, it is indisputable that the most favourable testimonies come from those who have really taken the most pains to examine and understand their work.

But it is not necessary that one unvarying range of temperature should be kept up at whatever pains or risk.

Thus the unification of the realm, which Dagobert had reestablished with so much pains, was annulled.

His father was his first teacher, and took pains to instruct him in all the learning of the time, especially in medicine.

Learned he was not, but he had naturally bright and clear understanding, an unusually good memory, and a marvellous capacity for taking pains.

They spare neither pains nor money in acquiring specimens, even from distant lands, to which they often send out expert collectors at their own expense.

His collections of original materials were vast; beginning with his residence in England, he brought together at enormous pains and expense the authenticated copies of archives, family papers, and personal journals written by historic personages, which now constitute an invaluable treasure in the New York public library.

The reason or intellect is introduced to balance possible pleasures and pains, and to construct a scheme in which pleasures are the materials of a happy life.

The Pricke of Conscience is a long religious poem, in rhyming couplets, dealing with the beginning of man's life, the instability of the world, why death is to be dreaded, of doomsday, of the pains of hell, and the joys of heaven, the two latter subjects being treated with uncompromising realism.

Other pieces paint in glowing colours the joys of heaven and the pains of hell.

In them, working with infinite preliminary pains, as a vast number of extant drawings and studies testify, he produced what have been accounted his four capital works in painting, besides several others of minor importance.

Carlyle had spared no pains in research.

Satisfactions took the new meaning of the temporal punishments due in this life and the substitute for the pains of purgatory.

Thus Satisfactions became not merely signs of sorrow but actual merits, which freed men from the need to undergo the temporal pains here and in purgatory which their sins had rendered them liable to.

Year by year Luther had been growing weaker, his attacks of illness more frequent and his bodily pains more continuous.

He was constant in his attendance in parliament, and spared no pains in pressing on measures of practical utility.

It was the opinion of some that he never really understood the historical position of the English Church and took no pains to learn.

There were landed at Cape Evans 17 Siberian ponies, .33 Siberian sledge dogs and three motor sledges on the design of which Scott had taken immense pains.

In this he contends that only the Epistles to the Galatians, Corinthians and Romans are genuinely Pauline, and that the Paul of Acts is a different person from the Paul of these genuine Epistles, the author being a Paulinist who, with an eye to the different parties in the Church, is at pains to represent Peter as far as possible as a Paulinist and Paul as far as possible as a Petrinist.

No pains were spared to give effect to this plan.

This country has spared neither pains nor money in carrying out penal processes, and the Belgian prisons are examples of the cellular system prolonged to the utmost limits of human endurance.

They are objects of its reflection and made explicit in the few with pains and gradually.

Ibrahim pressed on with characteristic rapidity, his rapid advance being favoured by the friendly attitude of the various sections of the Syrian population, whom he had been at pains to conciliate.

It must be inferred from the whole practice of indulgences as at present authorized that the pains of purgatory are measurable by years and days; but here also everything is indefinite.

He takes as much pains in laying bare the trifling causes of a petty war with Pisa as in probing the deep-seated ulcer of the papacy.

At the same time, there is no doubt that much of the wine produced in the United States is of very fair quality, and this is largely due to the fact that the Americans have been at great pains to introduce the latest scientific methods in regard to the vine and wine-making.

Those of the plains find the temperature chilly, and are stricken down with influenza and pains in the limbs.

He was, besides, at great pains to be an impartial writer, but was not always successful.

Few at this time realized the danger which arose later from the closer adhesion of Russia to the Western Powers, especially as Aehrenthal took the greatest pains to prove in all quarters, after the conclusion of the annexation crisis, that Austria-Hungary cherished no farreaching plans of conquest.

During his residence there, Christabel, written many years before, and known to a favoured few, was first published in a volume with Kubla Khan and the Pains of Sleep in 1816.