4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pain \Pain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pained} (p[=a]nd); 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). [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. --Locke . [1913 Webster] 3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents. [1913 Webster] I am pained at my very heart. --Jer. iv. 19. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] Syn: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: pained \pained\ adj. Made to suffer mental pain. Syn: offended. [WordNet 1.5] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: pained adj : hurt or upset; "she looked offended"; "face had a pained and puzzled expression" [syn: {offended}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 32 Moby Thesaurus words for "pained": aching, afflicted, aggrieved, agonized, anguished, bleeding, bruised, convulsed, crucified, cut, distressed, grieved, harrowed, hurt, hurting, in distress, in pain, injured, lacerated, martyred, martyrized, mauled, on the rack, racked, stung, suffering, tormented, tortured, twisted, under the harrow, wounded, wrung
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