painful process
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpainfulandprocess
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painful
adjective
uk/ˈpeɪn.fəl/us/ˈpeɪn.fəl/
causing emotional or ...
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process
noun[C]
uk/ˈprəʊ.ses/us/ˈprɑː.ses/
a series of actions that you take in order to achieve ...
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(Definition ofpainfulandprocessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Modernising that economy is going to be a long, slow andpainfulprocesswith some mind-boggling political problems for the new national leaders.
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It was a long andpainfulprocessand everyone who played a part can now look back on it with a clear conscience.
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This will be an extremelypainfulprocess, and one can ask oneself whether it would all that useful right now.
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It can, nonetheless, be apainfulprocessto give up dossiers on which one has been working.
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Reconstruction in war-torn societies is a long andpainfulprocess.
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But thepainfulprocesslingered on because different voices were heard outside the official diplomatic channels.
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This presentation tends to hide the complex andpainfulprocessof women's integration into science behind a rosy image of progress and increasing democratization.
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Thispainfulprocessof the transformation of the main character from intellectual neutrality and passivity towards active involvement reveals a very existentialist mode of thought.
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The change from status to contract, from primarily social to primarily economic relations, and the growth of wage labour, alienation and land clearance was apainfulprocess.
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The restructuring of the economy involves apainfulprocessof adjustment, involving problems of unemployment and the downgrading of work conditions for certain sectors of the population.
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It is apainfulprocessfor a great industry and a great trade union to co-operate in reducing the scale of the industry.
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But it is a slow andpainfulprocess.
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The one thing that we were entitled to expect out of this lengthy andpainfulprocesswas an end to doubt.
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We said that it would be apainfulprocess.
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I have been through the time-consuming andpainfulprocessof a public inquiry.
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Such a change of mind on these matters can be apainfulprocess.
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I feel sorry for men who die by a slow,painfulprocess.
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We are now at the end of a long andpainfulprocess.
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I am aware that that is apainfulprocess, but if adjustments are to be made they must be made as quickly as possible.
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