PAIN

verb

Synonyms

disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture.

Definitions

  1. 1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.] Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).
  2. 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. Lock
  3. 3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents. I am pained at mJer. 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.

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Added: October 09, 2025 Updated: October 09, 2025
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