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pain

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/peɪn/ English

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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.”

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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