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pain

Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ̯n/

The English word “pain” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

  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.
  2. The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
  3. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
  4. An annoying person or thing.
  5. Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
  6. Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
  7. Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

verb

  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.
  3. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  4. To hurt; to feel painful.
  5. To feel pain; to hurt.

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”)). Doublet of peine. Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German…

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