PAIN

pain, pain sensation, painful sensation

(noun) a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; “as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain”

annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass

(noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; “washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer”; “a bit of a bother”; “he’s not a friend, he’s an infliction”

pain, painfulness

(noun) emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; “the pain of loneliness”

pain, pain in the neck, nuisance

(noun) a bothersome annoying person; “that kid is a terrible pain”

pain, hurting

(noun) a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; “the patient developed severe pain and distension”

trouble, ail, pain

(verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed

pain, anguish, hurt

(verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable; “It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Pain

An English surname, variant of Paine.

Anagrams

• APNI, NIPA, PANI, nipa, pian, pina, piña

Etymology 1

Noun

pain (countable and uncountable, plural pains)

(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.

(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress

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

(uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

(mostly, in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

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 pain

Antonyms

• pleasure

Hyponyms

• agony

• anguish

• pang

• neuropathic pain

• nociceptive pain

• phantom pain

• psychogenic pain

Verb

pain (third-person singular simple present pains, present participle paining, simple past and past participle pained)

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

(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

(transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

Etymology 2

Noun

pain (plural pains)

(obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

Anagrams

• APNI, NIPA, PANI, nipa, pian, pina, piña

Etymology

Noun

PAIN (plural PAINs)

Acronym of pan-assay interference compound.

Anagrams

• APNI, NIPA, PANI, nipa, pian, pina, piña

Source: Wiktionary

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Pain, n. Etym: [OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena, penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr. penalty. Cf. Penal, Pine to languish, Punish.]

1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. Chaucer. We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. Bacon. Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. Dryden. None shall presume to fly, under pain of death. Addison.

2. 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. "The pain of Jesus Christ." Chaucer.

Note: Pain may occur in any part of the body where sensory nerves are distributed, and it is always due to some kind of stimulation of them. The sensation is generally referred to the peripheral end of the nerve.

3. pl.

Definition: Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. 1 Sam. iv. 19.

4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Chaucer. In rapture as in pain. Keble.

5. See Pains, labor, effort. Bill of pains and penalties. See under Bill.

– To die in the pain, to be tortured to death. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pain, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pained; p. pr. & vb. n. Paining.] Etym: [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See Pain, n.]

1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.] Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).

2. 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. Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. Lock

3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents. I am pained at mJer. iv. 19. To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] "She pained her to do all that she might." Chaucer.

Syn.

– To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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