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Meaning of pain

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

pain

Pronunciation:/peɪn//peɪn/

noun

Definitions

  1. 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.

    Example: I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.

  2. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress

    Example: In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.

  3. (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.

    Example: Your mother is a right pain.

  4. Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

    Example: You may not leave this room on pain of death.

verb

Definitions

  1. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.

    Example: The wound pained him.

  2. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

    Example: It pains me to say that I must let you go.

  3. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.