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be at pains

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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

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
§1
to try very hard to do something
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
to try very hard to do something
DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column

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