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Leaves behind apparent painful discomforts, we hear (9)

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I believe the answer is:

overtakes

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'painful discomforts we hear' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'leaves behind apparent' is the wordplay.
'leaves' becomes 'akes' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'behind' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'apparent' becomes 'overt' (I've seen this before).
'akes' after 'overt' is 'OVERTAKES'.

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(Another definition for overtakes that I've seen is " Catches up on and passes".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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