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Definition of 'pain'English
Noun
(countable|and|uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
- The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain .
- I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
- In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
- The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
(countable) An annoying person or thing.
- Your mother is a right pain .
(uncountable|obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
- You may not leave this room on pain of death.
- Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. — Dryden
- We will, by way of mulct or pain , lay it upon him. — Bacon
Labour; effort; pains.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.
Synonyms
* (an annoying person or thing) pest
* See also
Antonyms
* pleasure
Hyponyms
( checksense)
* agony
* anguish
* pang
* neuropathic pain
* nociceptive pain
* phantom pain
* psychogenic pain
Derived terms
( der-top)
* pain in the arse
* pain in the ass
* pain in the back
* pain in the bum
( der-mid)
* pain in the butt
* pain in the neck
* painkiller
* painy
( der-bottom)
Verb
( en-verb)
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
- The wound pained him.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
- It pains me to say that I must let you go.
(obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
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