pains

/peɪnz/

noun

  1. 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.

    I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
  2. 2

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

    In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
  3. 3

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

    Your mother is a right pain.
  4. 4

    Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

    You may not leave this room on pain of death.
  5. 5

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

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verb

  1. 1

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

    The wound pained him.
  2. 2

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

    It pains me to say that I must let you go.
  3. 3

    To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

noun

  1. 1

    Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

    gammon pain; Spanish pain

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