Definition of "pain"

pain¹

/peɪn/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural pains
1. (countable and uncountable) 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.
  1. (now usually in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
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    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.
    1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 99
2. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
  Quotations
  And I should tell him all my pain,⁠And how my life had droop’d of late,⁠And he should sorrow o’er my stateAnd marvel what possess’d my brain; […]
  1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XIV, page 22
3. (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
4. (uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
  Quotations
  We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.
  1629, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement Touching a Holy War
  Seb[astian]. […] [M]y duty, then, / To interpoſe; on pain of my diſpleasure, / Betwixt your Swords[.] / Dor[ax]. On pain of Infamy / He ſhould have diſobey'd.
  1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], Act IV, page 105
5. (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
verb
third-person singular simple present pains, present participle paining, simple past and past participle pained
1. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
2. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
4. (intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.
  Quotations
  Oh my head is aching, oh Lord Damodara [Visnu], give me "kazhi". The neck is paining, oh Lord Kamadeva give me relief. My chest is paining, oh Lord Madhava, give me relief.
  2001, Sarah Caldwell, quoting C. Choondal, “Waves of Beauty, Rivers of Blood: Constructing the Goddess in Kerala”, in Tracy Pintchman, editor, Seeking Mahādevī: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess, page 104
  A lady visited the doctor, a general physician and complained of a lot of pain. The doctor asked her where she experienced pain.The lady touched her right knee and said, 'It is paining here doctor.'Then she touched her stomach and said, 'It is paining here too doctor.'
  2009, Nithyananda Paramahamsa, Bliss Is the Goal and the Path, page 124

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plural pains
1. (obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

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