pain
Forms
- Plural
- pains
- present (v1)
- pain
- past (v2)
- pained
- past participle (v3)
- pained
- present participle
- paining
- 3rd person singular
- pains
Definitions
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.
- The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
2.The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
- The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
- In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
3.An annoying person or thing.
- Your mother is a right pain.
- Today is match day, Grimsby Town are at home, and the ground is walking distance from New Clee station. So, visiting football supporters coming by train have to change at Grimsby Town [station]. That's a real pain.
4.Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
- I have a pain in my little toe.
1.To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
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 feel pain; to hurt.
- Please help me: I am paining hard.
- Oh my head is aching, oh Lord Damodara [Visnu], give me "kazhi". The neck is paining, oh Lord Kamadeva give me relief. My chest is paining, oh Lord Madhava, give me relief.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #943
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”), from Proto-Hellenic *kʷoinā́, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂ (“payment”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *cěnà (“price”)).