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painmaking

painmaking is the alternative form of pain-making.

Meaning of pain-making

Adjective

pain-making (comparative more pain-making, superlative most pain-making)

  1. Pain-causing; deliberately painful.

See all 2 meanings of pain-making

Forms of painmaking

comparativemore painmaking
superlativemost painmaking

Questions about painmaking

What is painmaking the alternative form of?
Painmaking is the alternative form of pain-making.

Words near painmaking in the dictionary

  1. painlessly
  2. painlessness
  3. painlike
  4. painmaker
  5. painmakers
  6. painmaking
  7. Paino
  8. paino nobiles
  9. Painos
  10. painplay
  11. painproof

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