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 Definitions of PAIN  [ɪn]  

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Definition of 'PAIN' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) pain
physical suffering typically from injury or illness.

2.  pain
an instance of such suffering; a distressing sensation in a part of the body:
a back pain.

3.  pain
severe mental or emotional distress:
the pain of loneliness.

4.  pain
pains,

5.  pain
assiduous care:
Take pains with your work.

6.  pain
the uterine contractions of childbirth.

7.  pain
Also called pain in the neck. an annoying or troublesome person or thing.

8. (v.t.) pain
to cause physical or emotional pain to.

9. (v.i.) pain
to have or give pain.


Definition of 'PAIN' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) pain, hurting
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
"the patient developed severe pain and distension"

2. (noun) pain, painfulness
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
"the pain of loneliness"

3. (noun) pain, pain sensation, painful sensation
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
"as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain"

4. (noun) pain, pain in the neck, nuisance
a bothersome annoying person
"that kid is a terrible pain"

5. (verb) annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
"washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"

6. (verb) trouble, ail, pain
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed

7. (verb) pain, anguish, hurt
cause emotional anguish or make miserable
"It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"


Definition of 'PAIN' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) pain
physical discomfort
back/stomach pain; I have a sharp pain in my right arm.; Are you in pain?

2.  pain
emotional suffering
the pain of losing a child; I didn't mean to cause anyone any pain.

3.  pain
a pain in the neck/butt
sth that is annoying or difficult
The long drive was a real pain in the neck.

4.  pain
go to/take great pains to
to make a big effort to
I took great pains to explain everything to him.


Definition of 'PAIN' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) PAIN
punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty

2. (noun) PAIN
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

3. (noun) PAIN
specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth

4. (noun) PAIN
uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish

5. (noun) PAIN
see Pains, labor, effort

6. (noun) PAIN
to inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish

7. (noun) PAIN
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

8. (noun) PAIN
to render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents


Definitions of 'PAIN' The Roycroft Dictionary 

PAIN
1. The sacred, immanent music of the Cosmos written in slow triple time.

2. A form of salvation invented by Christianity.

3. A beautiful and ecstatic state wherein one comes to a realization of the benevolence of the Almighty.


Definition of 'PAIN' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  PAIN
An unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli which are detected by NERVE ENDINGS of NOCICEPTIVE NEURONS.


Translation of 'PAIN' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: hurt or suffering of the body or mind
a pain in the chest.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: pyn Arabic flag Arabic: ألَم Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: болка
Brazilian flag Brazilian: dor Czech flag Czech: bolest German flag German: der Schmerz
Danish flag Danish: smerte; lidelse Greek flag Greek: πόνος Spanish flag Spanish: dolor
Estonian flag Estonian: valu Farsi flag Farsi: درد؛ رنج Finnish flag Finnish: kipu
French flag French: douleur Hebrew flag Hebrew: כְּאֵב Hindi flag Hindi: दर्द
Croatian flag Croatian: bol Hungarian flag Hungarian: fájdalom Indonesian flag Indonesian: nyeri
Icelandic flag Icelandic: sársauki Italian flag Italian: dolore Japanese flag Japanese: 痛み
Korean flag Korean: 아픔, 고통 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: skausmas, kančia Latvian flag Latvian: sāpes; smeldze
Malay flag Malay: kesakitan Dutch flag Dutch: pijn Norwegian flag Norwegian: smerte, pine
Polish flag Polish: ból Persian flag Persian: درد؛ رنج Pashto flag Pashto: خوږ، درد، سزا، رنځ، كړاو
Portuguese flag Portuguese: dor Romanian flag Romanian: durere Russian flag Russian: боль
Slovak flag Slovak: bolesť Slovenian flag Slovenian: bolečina Serbian flag Serbian: bol
Swedish flag Swedish: smärta, värk Thai flag Thai: ความเจ็บปวด Turkish flag Turkish: ağrı, acı
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 疼痛 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: біль, страждання Urdu flag Urdu: درد، تکليف
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: đau Chinese flag Chinese: 疼痛

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