PAIN — Definition of PAIN
noun
1
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.
2
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.
3
(from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
Your mother is a right pain.
4
Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
You may not leave this room on pain of death.
verb
1
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.
2
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
It pains me to say that I must let you go.
3
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
📚 Source: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pain
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