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Pain - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Pain : (noun)
1: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient
developed severe pain and distension" [syn: hurting]
2: emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to
avoid; "the pain of loneliness" [syn: painfulness] [ant:
pleasure]
3: a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity
increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain" [syn:
painful sensation]
4: a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain"
[syn: pain in the neck, nuisance]
5: 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" [syn: annoyance, bother, botheration,
infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass]
(verb)
1: cause bodily suffering to [syn: afflict, trouble, ail]
2: cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to
see my children not being taught well in school" [syn: anguish,
hurt]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Pain : \Pain\, n. [OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena, penalty,
punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr. ? penalty. Cf.
Penal, Pine to languish, Punish.]
1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil
inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the
commission of a crime; penalty. --Chaucer.
We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.
--Bacon.
Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. --Dryden.
None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.
--Addison.
2. 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. ``The pain of Jesus Christ.'' --Chaucer.
Note: Pain may occur in any part of the body where sensory
nerves are distributed, and it is always due to some
kind of stimulation of them. The sensation is generally
referred to the peripheral end of the nerve.
3. pl. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came
upon her. --1 Sam. iv.
19.
4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety;
grief; solicitude; anguish. --Chaucer.
In rapture as in pain. --Keble.
5. See Pains, labor, effort.
Bill of pains and penalties. See under Bill.
To die in the pain, to be tortured to death. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Pain : \Pain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pained; p. pr. & vb. n.
Paining.] [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See
Pain, n.]
1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.]
--Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).
2. 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.
Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. --Locke
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3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to
grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
I am pained at my very heart. --Jer. iv. 19.
To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's self; to take
pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] ``She pained her to do all
that she might.'' --Chaucer.
Syn: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve;
distress; agonize; torment; torture.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Pain : Pain: An unpleasant sensation that can range from mild, localized discomfort to agony. Pain has both physical and emotional components. The physical part of pain results from nerve
stimulation. Pain may be contained to a discrete area, as in an injury, or it can be more diffuse, as in disorders like fibromyalgia . Pain is mediated by specific nerve fibers that carry the pain
impulses to the brain where their conscious appreciation may be modified by many factors.
Pain is also a term specifically used to denote a painful uterine contraction occurring in childbirth.
The word "pain" comes from the Latin "poena" meaning a fine, a penalty.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Pain |
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Br0wnSkinNick: I wish struggle and Pain would set me free...but FUCK that I been through way 2 much...there's 2 much FIGHT in me! |
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akaBillClinton: @INFAMOUSDIOR THANK GOD FOR DRUGS! he will take da Pain away! |
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r374rD: RT @mattmuller think i've mentioned this before, but im gonna say it again to save you folks some Pain. #NETGEAR #ROUTERS #FAIL |
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