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  • 11painful — adjective 1 making you feel very upset, or very difficult and unpleasant for you: be painful for sb (to do sth): It s still painful for her to talk about the divorce. | painful memories/experience: Hearing about the war again brings back painful… …

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  • 12painful — pain|ful [ peınfl ] adjective ** 1. ) making you feel upset, ashamed, or unhappy: painful memory/reminder: He sobbed as he relived the painful memory. painful experience: His autobiography recounts the unique and painful experience of… …

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  • 13painful — [[t]pe͟ɪnfʊl[/t]] ♦♦♦ 1) ADJ GRADED: oft ADJ to inf If a part of your body is painful, it hurts because it is injured or because there is something wrong with it. Her glands were swollen and painful... Sampras awaits the results of a bone scan on …

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  • 14painful */*/ — UK [ˈpeɪnf(ə)l] / US adjective 1) making you feel upset, ashamed, or unhappy painful memory/reminder: He sobbed as he relived the painful memory. painful experience: His autobiography recounts the unique and painful experience of imprisonment.… …

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  • 15painful — adj. 1) painful to 2) painful to + inf. (it s painful to read of such things) * * * [ peɪnf(ə)l] painful to painful to + inf. (it s painful to read of such things) …

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  • 16painful — painfully, adv. painfulness, n. /payn feuhl/, adj. 1. affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory. 2. laborious; exacting; difficult: a painful life. 3. Archaic. painstaking; careful. [1300 …

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  • 17Painful (album) — Infobox Album | Name = Painful Type = Album Artist = Yo La Tengo Cover size = Caption = Released = October 5, 1993 Recorded = Genre = Rock Length = 48:36 Label = Matador Records Producer = Fred Brockman and Roger Moutenot Reviews = * Allmusic… …

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  • 18Painful Indifference — Infobox Film name = Painful Indifference caption = A shot from the film director = Alexander Sokurov producer = writer = Yuriy Arabov starring = Ramaz Chihvadze Alla Osipenko Vladimir Zamanskiy Tatyana Yegorova Viktoria Amitova Irina Sokolova… …

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  • 19painful — adj. VERBS ▪ be, look, seem ▪ become, get ▪ find sth ▪ She found it unbearably painful to speak …

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  • 20painful*/ — [ˈpeɪnf(ə)l] adj 1) making you feel upset, ashamed, or unhappy painful memories of her unhappy childhood[/ex] 2) causing physical pain The sting can be excruciatingly painful.[/ex] I have a sore throat, and it s really painful when I… …

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