pain

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• WordNet 3.6
  • v pain cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
  • v pain cause emotional anguish or make miserable "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"
  • n pain a somatic sensation of acute discomfort "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain"
  • n pain 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","he's not a friend, he's an infliction"
  • n pain emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid "the pain of loneliness"
  • n pain a bothersome annoying person "that kid is a terrible pain"
  • n pain a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder "the patient developed severe pain and distension"
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"School Gives Me Pain All Over the Body"

"THEY 'PUT THEIR HEADS TOGETHER' IN A NEW AN' PAINFUL WAY."

• Interesting fact: A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries
• • pain 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."
  • pain 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."
  • pain See Pains, labor, effort.
  • pain Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. "She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her."
  • Pain To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  • Pain 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."
  • Pain 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."
  • pain Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain. "In rapture as in pain ."
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• Interesting fact: Eating about twenty tart cherries a day could reduce inflammatory pain and headache pain
• • n pain Penalty; punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for a crime, or annexed to the commission of a crime.
  • n pain Uneasiness or distress of body or of mind; bodily or mental suffering. That property of sensations or states of consciousness which induces in the sentient being an effort or a desire to suppress or be rid of them: the opposite of pleasure. Pain may have any degree of intensity, from the least perceivable to a maximum at or about which consciousness is destroyed. It may be local or general, physical or mental, or both together. In many sensations, as those produced by burns, the prick of a pin, or a colic, the element of pain is so predominant that such sensations are distinctively called pains.
  • n pain Specifically — In the plural, the throes or distress of travail or childbirth.
  • n pain Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; solicitude; grief; sorrow.
  • n pain Labor; exertion; endeavor; especially, labor characterized by great care, or by assiduous attention to detail and a desire to secure the best results; care or trouble taken in doing something: used chiefly in the plural: as, to spare no pains to be accurate; to be at great pains or to take great pains in doing something. The form pains has been used by good writers as a singular, as in the quotation from Shakspere below.
  • n pain Trouble; difficulty.
  • n pain Synonyms Pain, Ache, Twinge. All the words expressing physical pain are applicable, by familiar and therefore not emphatic figure, to pain of mind. Pain is the general term; ache represents a continued local pain; it is often compounded with a word expressing the place, as headache, toothache. Twinge represents a sudden, momentary pain, as though one had been griped or wrung. See agony.
  • n pain Bitterness, heartache, affliction, woe, burden.
  • pain To inflict suffering upon as a penalty or punishment; torture; punish.
  • pain To trouble or annoy with physical or mental suffering. To render physically uneasy; inflict physical pain upon; distress.
  • pain To render uneasy in mind; trouble or annoy with mental suffering; distress; disquiet; grieve.
  • pain To cause to take pains; put to exertion: used reflexively.
  • pain To put to trouble or pains.
  • pain Synonyms To hurt, agonize, torment, torture, rack, excruciate.
  • pain To suffer; be afflicted with pain.
  • n pain Bread.
  • n pain An obsolete spelling of pane.
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• Interesting fact: Willow bark, which provides the salicylic acid from which aspirin was originally synthesized, has been used as a pain remedy ever since the Greeks discovered its therapeutic power nearly 2,500 years ago.
• • n Pain pān suffering coming as the punishment of evil-doing: suffering either of body or mind: anguish: great care or trouble taken in doing anything:
  • v.t Pain to cause suffering to: to distress: to torment: to grieve
  • n Pain careful labour: diligence
  • n Pain pān (pl.) labour: care: trouble: the throes of childbirth
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• Sting

  

  “I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.”
• H. Ross Perot

  

  “Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.”
• T. S. Eliot

  

  “Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.”
• St. Augustine

  

  “The greatest evil is physical pain.”
• Carl Jung

  

  “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
• Toni Morrison

  

  “When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.”

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