pain

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From Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinê, “bloodmoney, were-gild, fine, price paid, penalty”). Compare; German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn.

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pain (countable and uncountable; plural pains)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.
  3. (countable) An annoying person or thing.
    Your mother is a right pain.
  4. (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, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.

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ache or bodily suffering
suffering or anguish, especially mental
annoying person or thing
suffering as punishment
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pain (third-person singular simple present pains, present participle paining, simple past and past participle pained)

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
    It pains me to say that I must let you go.
  3. (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
to inflict suffering upon as a penalty

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Latin panis

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pain m. (oblique plural pains, nominative singular pains, nominative plural pain)

  1. bread

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pain

  1. Genitive singular form of pai.

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Old French pain, Latin panis

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pain m. (plural pains)

  1. bread
  2. piece of bread
  3. Same kind of bread as a baguette, but bigger in size.
  4. (informal) punch (a hit with the fist)
  5. a block (of ice)

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Latin panis

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pain m. (oblique plural pains, nominative singular pains, nominative plural pain)

  1. bread

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