pain
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From Old French peine < Latin poena (“‘punishment, pain’”) < Ancient Greek ποινή (poine), “‘bloodmoney, were-gild, fine, price paid, penalty’”). Compare; German Pein de(de), Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn.
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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.
- The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
- I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
- (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
- In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
- The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
- (countable) An annoying person or thing.
- Your mother is a right pain.
- (uncountable) (obsolete) Suffering seen as a punishment or penalty.
- You may not leave this room on pain of death.
- Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. — Dryden
- We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. — Bacon
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- Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, excruciating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, stabbing, etc.
[edit] Synonyms
- (an annoying person or thing) pest
- See also Wikisaurus:pain
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ache or bodily suffering
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suffering or anguish, especially mental
annoying person or thing
suffering as punishment
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to 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.
- The wound pained him.
- (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
- It pains me to say that I must let you go.
- (transitive) (obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
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to hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish
to render uneasy in mind, to grieve
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to inflict suffering upon as a penalty
[edit] References
- pain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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pain
- Genitive singular form of pai.
[edit] French
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Old French pan, from Latin panis.
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- IPA: /pɛ̃/, SAMPA: /pE~/
- Audio (FR)help, file
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pain m. (plural pains)
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Terms derived from "pain"
