Pain
/peɪn/
Pain is a noun and verb with 4 senses listed below, each with examples where available, plus synonyms and a word game to make it stick.
Definition
noun
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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.
“I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.”
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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.”
verb
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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.”
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To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
“It pains me to say that I must let you go.”
Definitions from the Free Dictionary API
Synonyms
pest
Antonyms
pleasure
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