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pain

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1. pain - Noun

2. pain - Verb

3. Pain - Proper noun

Meaning

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

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.

Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

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

See Pains, labor, effort.

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

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.

To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school Source: Internet

washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer Source: Internet

a bit of a bother Source: Internet

he's not a friend, he's an infliction Source: Internet

the patient developed severe pain and distension Source: Internet

that kid is a terrible pain Source: Internet

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