take pains

1. 1.

   try very hard to do something

   Synonymsbe at pains

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Questions about take pains

What does take pains mean?

take pains means "try very hard to do something".

What is another word for take pains?

Close synonyms include be at pains. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take pains a common word?

take pains is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.