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Pain
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- 1 A surname.
- 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. countable, uncountable
"The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain."
- 2 Any of various breads stuffed with a filling. obsolete
"gammon pain; Spanish pain"
- 3 Acronym of pan-assay interference compound. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 4 a somatic sensation of acute discomfort wordnet
- 5 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.; The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus. countable, plural-normally, uncountable
"When the pains are every five minutes and quite strong or the cervix is five cm. dilated along with regular and strong pains, the mother is given a block anesthesia of 1 cc. of 1:200 nupercaine, 1 cc. of 10 per cent dextrose with .05 cc. of 1:1000 adrenalin."
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- 6 something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness wordnet
- 7 The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress uncountable
"In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life."
- 8 emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid wordnet
- 9 An annoying person or thing. countable
"Your mother is a right pain."
- 10 a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder wordnet
- 11 Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty. dated, uncountable
"You may not leave this room on pain of death."
- 12 Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something. countable, in-plural, uncountable
- 1 To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. transitive
"The wound pained him."
- 2 cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed wordnet
- 3 To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. transitive
"It pains me to say that I must let you go."
- 4 cause emotional anguish or make miserable wordnet
- 5 To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. obsolete, transitive
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- 6 To feel pain; to hurt. India, intransitive
"Please help me, I am paining hard."
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 Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old English sār (whence Modern English sore).
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 Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old English sār (whence Modern English sore).
From Middle English payn (“a kind of pie with a soft crust”), from Old French pain (“bread”).
Various origins: * A variant of Paine. * Borrowed from Spanish Paín.
Backformation from pain (“pain in the ass”)
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