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Meaning of 'pain' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Pain [ n.]
- Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
- Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
- Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
- Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
- See Pains, labor, effort.
- To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
- To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
- To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

Meaning of 'pain' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . pain [ n]
Meaning (1):
- something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
Example in sentence:
  • a bit of a bother;
  • he's not a friend, he's an infliction;
  • washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer
Meaning (2):
- a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
Example in sentence:
  • as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain
Meaning (3):
- a bothersome annoying person
Example in sentence:
  • that kid is a terrible pain
Meaning (4):
- emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
Example in sentence:
  • the pain of loneliness
Meaning (5):
- a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
Example in sentence:
  • the patient developed severe pain and distension
6 . pain [ v]
Meaning (6):
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
Example in sentence:
  • It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school

Nearby Words:

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