Pain
[peɪn] or [pen]
Definition
(noun.) a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; 'as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain'.
(noun.) emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; 'the pain of loneliness'.
(noun.) a bothersome annoying person; 'that kid is a terrible pain'.
(noun.) a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; 'the patient developed severe pain and distension'.
(verb.) cause emotional anguish or make miserable; 'It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school'.
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Definition
(n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
(n.) Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
(n.) See Pains, labor, effort.
(n.) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Penalty, punishment.[2]. Suffering, distress, ache, pang, torment, torture, anguish, agony, throe, twinge.[3]. Uneasiness, disquietude, anxiety, solicitude, care, grief, sorrow, bitterness, affliction, woe, heartache.
v. a. [1]. Torment, torture, rack, agonize, distress, hurt.[2]. Disquiet, trouble, afflict, grieve, aggrieve, displease, annoy, plague, bore, harass, vex, worry, tease, chafe, fret, incommode.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hurt, grieve, afflict, torment, rack, agonize, trouble, torture, aggrieve,annoy, distress
ANT:Gratify, please, delight, rejoice, charm, relieve, ease, refresh
SYN:Penalty, suffering, distress, uneasiness, grief, (labour, effort, in_the,pains)_anguish, torture, agony
ANT:Reward, remuneration, ease, gratification, joy, pleasure, felicity, relief,alleviation, enjoyment, delight
Typist: Vance
Definition
n. suffering coming as the punishment of evil-doing: suffering either of body or mind: anguish: great care or trouble taken in doing anything: (pl.) labour: care: trouble: the throes of childbirth.—v.t. to cause suffering to: to distress: to torment: to grieve.—adjs. Pained showing or expressing pain: (B.) in pain in labour; Pain′ful full of pain: causing pain: requiring labour pain or care: (arch.) hard-working painstaking: distressing: difficult.—adv. Pain′fully.—n. Pain′fulness.—adj. Pain′less without pain.—adv. Pain′lessly.—ns. Pain′lessness; Pains′taker one who takes pains or care: a laborious worker.—adj. Pains′taking taking pains or care: laborious: diligent.—n. careful labour: diligence.—Under pain of subject to the penalty of.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are in pain, will make sure of your own unhappiness. This dream foretells useless regrets over some trivial transaction. To see others in pain, warns you that you are making mistakes in your life.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body or may be purely mental caused by the good fortune of another.
Checker: Patrice
Unserious Contents or Definition
A sensation experienced on receiving a Punch, particularly the London one.
Checker: Polly
Examples
- The exquisite pain and suffering endured previous to the use of anaesthetics often caused death by exhaustion. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If she had been in great pain one would have excused it, but she only wanted to bring us all here: I know her naughty tricks. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Matthew, sceptic and scoffer, had already failed to subscribe a prompt belief in that pain about the heart. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In pain, dear Jenny? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Are you free from pain? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Say, then, is not pleasure opposed to pain? Plato. The Republic.
- It cannot promote health nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He took pains to prove that he only just tolerated me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Jarndyce took great pains to talk with him seriously and to put it to his good sense not to deceive himself in so important a matter. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We have been at some pains in this history to make plain the development of these differences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The jealousy of the artist to maintain that reputation, which his ingenuity has justly acquired, has urged him to unnecessary pains on this subject. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- If it were even to take pains to prevent their importation, it would not be able to effectuate it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- H istor y of Bodily Pains, as species of Touch. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains! Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Forgive me, if I have unintentionally pained and shocked you, I replied. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You have quite lost that harassed air which it often pained one to see in your face a few months ago. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Dr. Johnyou pained me afterwards: forgiven be every ill--freely forgiven--for the sake of that one dear remembered good! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Of sacrificing myself I made no difficulty but my heart is pained by what I see; it _must_ have and give solace. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I have been pained by her manner this morning, and cannot get the better of it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The sight of Betsey brought the image of little Mary back again, but she would not have pained her mother by alluding to her for the world. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I was pained at this, and sat still watching the operation of the fire. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I must speak, Miss Vye, in spite of paining you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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