Pronunciation Noun
pain
- (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
- In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
- The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
- (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
- Your mother is a right pain.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
- You may not leave this room on pain of death.
- (mostly, in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
- (an annoying person or thing) pest
- See also Thesaurus:pain
- French: casse-pied, casse-couilles (vulgar)
- Italian: rompicoglioni
- Portuguese: mala, chato
- Russian: зану́да
pain (pains, present participle paining; 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.
- Italian: addolorare, affliggere
- Portuguese: doer em
- Russian: му́чить
- Spanish: apenar
pain (plural pains)
Pain
Proper noun
PAIN
Noun
pain (plural pains)
- Acronym of pan-assay interference compound
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