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pain

  [peyn]
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–noun
1. physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
2. a distressing sensation in a particular part of the body: a back pain.
3. mental or emotional suffering or torment: I am sorry my news causes you such pain.
4. pains,
a. laborious or careful efforts; assiduous care: Great pains have been taken to repair the engine perfectly.
b. the suffering of childbirth.
5. Informal. an annoying or troublesome person or thing.
–verb (used with object)
6. to cause physical pain to; hurt.
7. to cause (someone) mental or emotional pain; distress: Your sarcasm pained me.
–verb (used without object)
8. to have or give pain.
—Idioms
9. feel no pain, Informal. to be intoxicated: After all that free beer, we were feeling no pain.
10. on, upon, or under pain of, liable to the penalty of: on pain of death.
11. pain in the ass, Slang: Vulgar. pain (def. 5).
12. pain in the neck, Informal. pain (def. 5).
Origin:
1250–1300; ME peine punishment, torture, pain < OF < L poena penalty, pain < Gk poin penalty

Synonyms:
1–3. torture, misery, torment. Pain, ache, agony, anguish are terms for sensations causing suffering or torment. Pain and ache usually refer to physical sensations (except heartache); agony and anguish may be physical or mental. Pain suggests a sudden sharp twinge: a pain in one's ankle. Ache applies to a continuous pain, whether acute or dull: headache; muscular aches. Agony implies a continuous, excruciating, scarcely endurable pain: in agony from a wound. Anguish suggests not only extreme and long-continued pain, but also a feeling of despair. 2. pang, twinge, stitch. 4a. See care. 7. afflict, torment; trouble, grieve.

Antonyms:
3. joy, delight. 7. please.
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pain   (pān)   
n.  
  1. An unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder.
  2. Suffering or distress.
  3. pains The pangs of childbirth.
  4. pains Great care or effort: take pains with one's work.
  5. Informal A source of annoyance; a nuisance.
v.   pained, pain·ing, pains

v.   tr.
To cause pain to; hurt or injure.
v.   intr.
To be the cause of pain.

[Middle English, from Old French peine, from Latin poena, penalty, pain, from Greek poinē, penalty; see kwei-1 in Indo-European roots.]
Synonyms: These nouns denote a sensation of severe physical discomfort: abdominal pain; aches in my leg; the pangs of a cramped muscle; aspirin that alleviated the smart; a stitch in my side; the throes of dying; a twinge of arthritis.
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Pain

Pain\, n. [OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena, penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr. ? penalty. Cf. Penal, Pine to languish, Punish.]

1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. --Chaucer.

We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. --Bacon.

Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. --Dryden.

None shall presume to fly, under pain of death. --Addison.

2. 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." --Chaucer.

Note: Pain may occur in any part of the body where sensory nerves are distributed, and it is always due to some kind of stimulation of them. The sensation is generally referred to the peripheral end of the nerve.

3. pl. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. --1 Sam. iv. 19.

4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. --Chaucer.

In rapture as in pain. --Keble.

5. See Pains, labor, effort.

Bill of pains and penalties. See under Bill.

To die in the pain, to be tortured to death. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Pain

Pain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pained; p. pr. & vb. n. Paining.] [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See Pain, n.]

1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).

2. 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. --Locke .

3. 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. --Jer. iv. 19.

To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] "She pained her to do all that she might." --Chaucer.

Syn: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture.
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Language Translation for : pain
Spanish: dolor,
German: der Schmerz,
Japanese: 痛み
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pain  (n.)
1297, "punishment," especially for a crime; also (c.1300) "condition one feels when hurt, opposite of pleasure," from O.Fr. peine, from L. poena "punishment, penalty" (in L.L. also "torment, hardship, suffering"), from Gk. poine "punishment," from PIE *kwei- "to pay, atone, compensate" (see penal). The earliest sense in Eng. survives in phrase on pain of death. The verb meaning "to inflict pain" is first recorded c.1300. Phrase to give (someone) a pain "be annoying and irritating" is from 1908; localized as pain in the neck (1924) and pain in the ass (1934), though this last may be the original, unrecorded sense and the others euphemisms. Pains "great care taken (for some purpose)" is first recorded 1528 (in the singular, in this sense, it is attested from c.1300); painstaking (adj.) is 1556 as paynes taking. First record of pain-killer is from 1853.
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Main Entry: pain
Function: noun
1 : PUNISHMENT
2 a : physical discomfort associated with bodily disorder (as disease or injury) b : acute mental or emotional suffering —pain·less adjective —pain·less·ly adverb —on pain of or un·der pain of : subject to penalty or punishment of on pain of death>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: 1pain
Pronunciation: 'pAn
Function: noun
1 a : a state of physical, emotional, or mental lack of well-being or physical,emotional, or mental uneasiness that ranges from mild discomfort or dull distress to acute often unbearable agony, may be generalized or localized, and is the consequence of being injured or hurtphysically or mentally or of some derangement of or lack of equilibrium in the physical or mental functions (as through disease), and that usually produces a reaction of wanting to avoid, escape, ordestroy the causative factor and its effects pain> b : a basic bodily sensation that is induced by a noxious stimulus, is received by naked nerve endings,is characterized by physical discomfort (as pricking, throbbing, or aching), and typically leads to evasive action
2 pains pl : the protracted series of involuntarycontractions of the uterine musculature that constitute the major factor in parturient labor and that are often accompanied by considerable pain pains had begun>

Main Entry: 2pain
Function: transitive verb
: to make suffer or cause distress to pain intransitive senses
: to give or have asensation of pain
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pain (pān)
n.

  1. An unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder.
  2. One of the uterine contractions occurring in childbirth.

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pain

In addition to the idioms beginning with pain, also see at pains; feel no pain; for one's pains; growing pains; no pain, no gain; on pain of.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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