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pain·less

 (pān′lĭs)
adj.
Free from complication or pain: a painless operation.

pain′less·ly adv.
pain′less·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.painlessly - without pain; "after the surgery, she could move her arms painlessly"
painfully, sorely - in or as if in pain; "she moved painfully forward"; "sorely wounded"
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Translations
بدون ألم
bezbolestně
fájdalommentesen
sársaukalaust
bezbolestne
brez bolečin

painlessly

[ˈpeɪnlɪslɪ] ADV (= without pain) → sin causar dolor (fig) (= easily) → fácilmente
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

painlessly

[ˈpeɪnləsli] adv
(= not painfully) → sans douleur
(= without difficulty) → sans effortpain relief nsoulagement m de la douleur
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

painlessly

advschmerzlos
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

painlessly

[ˈpeɪnlɪslɪ] advin modo indolore
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

pain

(pein) noun
hurt or suffering of the body or mind. a pain in the chest.
verb
to cause suffering or upset to (someone). It pained her to admit that she was wrong.
pained adjective
showing or expressing pain. a pained expression.
ˈpainful adjective
causing pain. a painful injury.
ˈpainfully adverb
ˈpainless adjective
without pain. painless childbirth.
ˈpainlessly adverb
ˈpainkiller noun
a drug etc which lessens or removes pain.
ˈpainstaking (ˈpeinz-) adjective
going to great trouble and taking great care. a painstaking student.
a pain in the neck
a person who is constantly annoying. People who are always complaining are a pain in the neck.
take pains
to take great trouble and care (to do something). He took great pains to make sure we enjoyed ourselves.
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Advocating therefore a VIA MEDIA, I would lay down no fixed or absolute line of demarcation; but at the period when the frame is just beginning to set, and when the Medical Board has reported that recovery is improbable, I would suggest that the Irregular offspring be painlessly and mercifully consumed.
One of the doctors, under pretence of carrying out an examination, swiftly opened an artery with a sharp knife, and in a minute or two the sufferer expired painlessly. There were many cases that day in which this was done.
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She had died in her sleep, painlessly and calmly, and on her face was a smile -- as if, after all, death had come as a kindly friend to lead her over the threshold, instead of the grisly phantom she had dreaded.
Noirtier,' the helpless old man, at the tender mercies of the weakest creature in the household, that is, his grandchild, Valentine; a dumb and frozen carcass, in fact, living painlessly on, that time may be given for his frame to decompose without his consciousness of its decay."
As for my own end it was in this wise: heaven did not take me swiftly and painlessly in my own house, nor was I attacked by any illness such as those that generally wear people out and kill them, but my longing to know what you were doing and the force of my affection for you--this it was that was the death of me.' {93}
It was obviously dying--quietly and painlessly, but none the less surely.
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