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Pains

noun
/peɪnz/
Word Frequency: 7.3

Definitions

1.nounAn 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.nounThe 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.noun(from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
"Your mother is a right pain."
4.nounSuffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
"You may not leave this room on pain of death."
5.noun(chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
6.verbTo 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."
7.verbTo render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
"It pains me to say that I must let you go."
8.verbTo inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
9.nounAny of various breads stuffed with a filling.
"gammon pain; Spanish pain"

Synonyms

peststrivingnisusstraindifficultiessufferingevilsevilhurtgriefcareassembly

Antonyms

pleasure

Rhymes With

remainsmanesexplainsveinsconstrainsbrainscontainsfeigns
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