pains
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.
“I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.”
- 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
(from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
“Your mother is a right pain.”
- 4
Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
“You may not leave this room on pain of death.”
- 5
(chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
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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.
“The wound pained him.”
- 2
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
“It pains me to say that I must let you go.”
- 3
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
noun
- 1
Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
“gammon pain; Spanish pain”
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