pain
v.
hurt, cause pain; grieve, sadden
n.
sensation of physical discomfort (often due to illness or injury); emotional suffering or distress; someone or something that is irritating or problematic
Pain and nociception
Pain
pain (m)
n.
bread, loaf
Pain
(n.)
Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
(n.)
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
(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 inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
(n.)
Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
(n.)
See Pains, labor, effort.
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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