pain

Definitions

1. 1noun

   Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

2. 2noun

   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.

3. 3noun

   Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

4. 4noun

   Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.

5. 5noun

   See Pains, labor, effort.

6. 6noun

   To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

7. 7noun

   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.

8. 8noun

   To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

9. 9noun

   a somatic sensation of acute discomfort

   "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain"

10. 10noun

    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"

    Synonyms

    annoyancebotherbotherationinfliction
11. 11noun

    emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid

    "the pain of loneliness"

    Synonyms

    painfulness
12. 12noun

    a bothersome annoying person

    "that kid is a terrible pain"

    Synonyms

    nuisance
13. 13noun

    a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder

    "the patient developed severe pain and distension"

    Synonyms

    hurting
14. 14verb

    cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed

    Synonyms

    ailtrouble
15. 15verb

    cause emotional anguish or make miserable

    "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"

    Synonyms

    anguishhurt