pain

B1
Pronunciation
/peɪn/
/peɪn/
Noun
6 definition(s)
1 Definition

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.

Example Sentences
  • I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
2 Definition

The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress

Example Sentences
  • In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
3 Definition

(from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.

Example Sentences
  • Your mother is a right pain.
4 Definition

Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

Example Sentences
  • You may not leave this room on pain of death.
5 Definition

(chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

6 Definition

Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

Example Sentences
  • gammon pain; Spanish pain
Verb
3 definition(s)
1 Definition

To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.

Example Sentences
  • The wound pained him.
2 Definition

To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

Example Sentences
  • It pains me to say that I must let you go.
3 Definition

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.