Definitions for the word "pain" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
See Pains, labor, effort.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 any unpleasant bodily sensation produced by illness, accident, etc. 2 mental suffering. 3 (also pain in the neck or arse) colloq. Troublesome person or thing; nuisance. v. 1 cause pain to. 2 (as pained adj.) Expressing pain (pained expression). be at (or take) pains take great care. In pain suffering pain.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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