pain

1. 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.countableuncountable

   • The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
   • I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
2. 2

   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 pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.countableplural-normallyuncountable

   • When the pains are every five minutes and quite strong or the cervix is five cm. dilated along with regular and strong pains, the mother is given a block anesthesia of 1 cc. of 1:200 nupercaine, 1 cc. of 10 per cent dextrose with .05 cc. of
3. 3

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

   • In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
   • The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
4. 4

   An annoying person or thing.countable

   • Your mother is a right pain.
5. 5

   Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.dateduncountable

   • You may not leave this room on pain of death.
6. 6

   Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.countablein-pluraluncountable

   • The transition to N.E.P. was due to the catastrophic failure of this policy-a failure predicted by the Mensheviks and S.R.s, who for their pains had been denounced, imprisoned, and murdered as henchmen of the White Guards.

syn. misery · pain · wark

ant. pleasure

1. 1

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

   • The wound pained him.
2. 2

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

   • It pains me to say that I must let you go.
3. 3

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

4. 4

   To hurt; to feel painful.datedintransitive

   • My infernal thumb pains yet like the very devil.
5. 5

   To feel pain; to hurt.Indiaintransitive

   • Please help me: I am paining hard.

1. 1

   Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.obsolete

   • gammon pain; Spanish pain

syn. misery · pain · wark

ant. pleasure