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Pain   /peɪn/   Listen
noun
pain  n.  
1.
Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. "We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him." "Interpose, on pain of my displeasure." "None shall presume to fly, under pain of death."
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." 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 interpreted as originating at the peripheral end of the nerve.
3.
pl. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. "She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her."
4.
Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain. "In rapture as in pain."
5.
See Pains, labor, effort.
Bill of pains and penalties. See under Bill.
To die in the pain, to be tortured to death. (Obs.)



verb
Pain  v. t.  (past & past part. pained; pres. part. paining)  
1.
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. (Obs.)
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.".
3.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents. "I am pained at my very heart."
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."
Synonyms: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture.






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"Pain" Quotes from Famous Books



... shame you have not been let in before," said Flora, zealously. "You shall see Etty's drawings." Neither of us opened the portfolio she seized, however, but watched Etty's eyes. They were cast down with a diffident blush which gave me pain; I was indeed an intruder. She gave us the permission we waited for, however. There were many good copies of lessons: those I did not dwell upon. But the sketches, spirited though imperfect, I studied ...
— Autumn Leaves - Original Pieces in Prose and Verse • Various

... her breast; the meagre body was hidden beneath the folds of her mantle, which, in the graceful fashion of those days, passed over her head and fell below the knees; her face, very beautiful and tender, was bent over the little sufferer, who had forgotten his pain in the weariness it had brought him as ...
— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

... inevitable, adopted similar tactics, and for some moments the two animals padded softly round and round nosing each other and preparing to spring in to the attack. Then, quite suddenly and for no apparent reason, there came a shrill yelp of pain from Bob, and before anyone realised what had happened his tail went down, he rushed madly over the gangway, and shot along the jetty like ...
— Stand By! - Naval Sketches and Stories • Henry Taprell Dorling

... you," said the baron—brutally, I thought, considering the present condition of the man, his distance from home, friends, and all the natural ties that render calamity less frightful and insupportable. I would gladly have said a word to soften the pain which the baron had inflicted; but it would have been officious, and ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various

... in which they squirts strong-smelling stuff through. The foot is a pretty sight, as big as half a melon, and I doubts ever being able to put it to the ground again, though they says I shall. I gets very stiff at nights and the pain sometimes is cruel, but they gives me a prick with the morphia needle then which ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, October 31, 1917 • Various


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