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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: striving, nisus, pains, strain]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pains Pains, n. Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. And all my pains is sorted to no proof. --Shak. The pains they had taken was very great. --Clarendon. The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. --Dryden.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. [Often used in the singular number by the best writers.] 1. Labor, care, trouble, toilsome effort, task. 2. Travail, childbirth, labor.

Moby Thesaurus

assiduity, assiduousness, diligence, effort, elbow grease, endeavor, energy, exertion, hard pull, industriousness, industry, long pull, might and main, muscle, nerve and sinew, painstaking, painstakingness, sedulousness, thoroughgoingness, thoroughness, trouble