pain
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
“The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.”
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.”
An annoying person or thing.
“Your mother is a right pain.”
Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
“You may not leave this room on pain of death.”
Verb 4 meanings
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.”
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
“It pains me to say that I must let you go.”
To hurt; to feel painful.
To feel pain; to hurt.
“Please help me: I am paining hard.”
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”)).
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PAIN at a glance
PAIN has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (P 3 + A 1 + I 1 + N 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #957 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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