pain

  • (noun): 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.
  • (noun): The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
  • (noun): (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
  • (noun): Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
  • (noun): (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
  • (verb): To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
  • (verb): To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  • (verb): To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  • I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
  • In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
  • Your mother is a right pain.
  • You may not leave this room on pain of death.
  • The wound pained him.