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be at pains

verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026

to try very hard to do something

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Variants

synonym
take pains
pasttense
beed at painswas at pains
presentparticiple
being at pains
thirdpersonsingular
bes at painsis at pains
pastparticiple
beed at painsbeen at pains