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pain  (pn)
n.
1. An unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder.
2. Suffering or distress.
3. pains The pangs of childbirth.
4. pains Great care or effort: take pains with ones work.
5. Informal A source of annoyance; a nuisance.
v. pained, pain·ing, pains
v.tr.
To cause pain to; hurt or injure.
v.intr.
To be the cause of pain.
Idiom:
on/under pain of
Subject to the penalty of (a specified punishment, such as death).
[Middle English, from Old French peine, from Latin poena, penalty, pain, from Greek poin, penalty; see kwei-1 in Indo-European roots.]
Synonyms: pain, ache, pang, smart, stitch, throe, twinge
These nouns denote a sensation of severe physical discomfort: abdominal pain; aches in my leg; the pangs of a cramped muscle; aspirin that alleviated the smart; a stitch in my side; the throes of dying; a twinge of arthritis.


pain  /pen/  n. [U] 1 a hurt, a bad feeling ranging from a mild ache to extreme hurt caused by disease, injury, or mental distress: After the car accident, he had a pain in his right side.||The memory of her mothers illness caused her great pain. 2 fig. an annoying person or a situation: Commuting to work in big cities is a pain (or) a pain in the neck. 3 to take pains with s.t. or to do s.t.: to take great care in doing s.t.: The worker took great pains in building the stairway.
v. [T] to hurt: My hand pains me from a fall.||It pains me to see food wasted. pain
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