Pain

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An unpleasant feeling occurring as a result of injury or disease, usually localized in some part of the body.
  • noun. Bodily suffering characterized by such feelings.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Mental or emotional suffering; distress.
  • noun. An instance of this.
  • noun. The pangs of childbirth.
  • noun. Great care or effort.
  • noun. A source of annoyance; a nuisance.
  • transitive verb. To cause physical pain to; hurt.
  • transitive verb. To cause mental or emotional distress to.
  • idiom. (on/under) Subject to the penalty of (a specified punishment, such as death).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Bread.
  • noun. An obsolete spelling of pane.
  • To inflict suffering upon as a penalty or punishment; torture; punish.
  • To trouble or annoy with physical or mental suffering.
  • To render uneasy in mind; trouble or annoy with mental suffering; distress; disquiet; grieve.
  • To cause to take pains; put to exertion: used reflexively.
  • To put to trouble or pains.
  • Synonyms To hurt, agonize, torment, torture, rack, excruciate.
  • To suffer; be afflicted with pain.
  • noun. Penalty; punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for a crime, or annexed to the commission of a crime.
  • noun. Uneasiness or distress of body or of mind; bodily or mental suffering.
  • noun. Specifically — In the plural, the throes or distress of travail or childbirth.
  • noun. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; solicitude; grief; sorrow.
  • noun. Labor; exertion; endeavor; especially, labor characterized by great care, or by assiduous attention to detail and a desire to secure the best results; care or trouble taken in doing something: used chiefly in the plural: as, to spare no pains to be accurate; to be at great pains or to take great pains in doing something. The form pains has been used by good writers as a singular, as in the quotation from Shakspere below.
  • noun. Trouble; difficulty.
  • noun. Synonyms Pain, Ache, Twinge. All the words expressing physical pain are applicable, by familiar and therefore not emphatic figure, to pain of mind. Pain is the general term; ache represents a continued local pain; it is often compounded with a word expressing the place, as headache, toothache. Twinge represents a sudden, momentary pain, as though one had been griped or wrung. See agony.
  • noun. 2 . Bitterness, heartache, affliction, woe, burden.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
  • noun. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain.
  • noun. See Pains, labor, effort.
  • noun. See under Bill.
  • noun. to be tortured to death.
  • transitive verb. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  • transitive verb. To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture
  • transitive verb. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  • transitive verb. to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
  • noun. An annoying person or thing.
  • noun. (obsolete) Suffering seen as a punishment or penalty.
  • verb. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
  • verb. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  • verb. (obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a bothersome annoying person
  • noun. something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
  • noun. a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
  • Word Usage
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