Pain

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  pain \pain\ (p[=a]n), n. [OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena,
     penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr. poinh`
     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.


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              We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.
                                                    --Bacon.
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              Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. --Dryden.
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              None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.
                                                    --Addison.
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     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.
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     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
           interpreted as originating at the peripheral end of the
           nerve.
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     3. pl. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
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              She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came
              upon her.                             --1 Sam. iv.
                                                    19.
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     4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety;
        grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called {mental pain}.
        --Chaucer.
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              In rapture as in pain.                --Keble.
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     5. See {Pains}, labor, effort.
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     {Bill of pains and penalties}. See under {Bill}.
  
     {To die in the pain}, to be tortured to death. [Obs.]
        --Chaucer.
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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).
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     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.
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              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.
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              I am pained at my very heart.         --Jer. iv. 19.
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     {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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     Syn: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve;
          distress; agonize; torment; torture.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pain
       n 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}]
       v 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  248 Moby Thesaurus words for "pain":
     abscess, ache, aching, afflict, affliction, aggrieve, agonize,
     agony, ague, ail, anemia, anguish, ankylosis, annoyance, anoxia,
     apnea, asphyxiation, assiduousness, asthma, ataxia, atrophy,
     backache, barb the dart, bite, bitterness, bleakness, bleeding,
     blennorhea, blow, bore, bother, bruise, burn, cachexia, cachexy,
     castigation, chafe, chastening, chastisement, cheerlessness, chill,
     chills, colic, comfortlessness, condign punishment, constipation,
     constrain, convulse, convulsion, correction, coughing, cramp,
     crucify, cut, cut up, cyanosis, depress, depression, deserts,
     despair, diarrhea, diligence, disciplinary measures, discipline,
     discomfort, discomposure, dismalness, dismay, disquiet, distress,
     distressfulness, dizziness, dolor, drag, dreariness, dropsy,
     dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, effort, elbow grease,
     emaciation, excruciate, exertion, fainting, fatigue, ferule,
     fester, fever, fibrillation, flux, fret, gall, give pain, gnaw,
     grate, grief, grieve, grievousness, grind, gripe, growth, harass,
     harrow, headache, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hurt,
     hurt the feelings, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus,
     indigestion, industry, inflame, inflammation, inflict pain,
     infliction, injure, injury, insomnia, irk, irritate, irritation,
     itching, jaundice, joylessness, judgment, judicial punishment,
     kill by inches, labor, labored breathing, lacerate, lament,
     lamentability, lamentation, lesion, low blood pressure, lumbago,
     marasmus, martyr, martyrize, misery, mourn, mournfulness,
     nasal discharge, nasty blow, nausea, necrosis, nemesis, nip,
     nuisance, ordeal, painfulness, pains, pains and punishments, pang,
     paralysis, passion, pathos, pay, payment, penal retribution,
     penalty, penology, pest, pierce, pinch, pitiability, pitiableness,
     pitifulness, poignancy, prick, prolong the agony, pruritus,
     punishment, punition, put to torture, rack, rankle, rash, rasp,
     regrettableness, retribution, retributive justice, rheum, rub,
     sadden, sadness, sclerosis, scourge, sedulousness, seizure,
     sharpness, shock, skin eruption, smarting, sneezing, sore,
     sore spot, soreness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, spasm, stab, sting,
     stitch, strain, stress, stress of life, stroke, suffer, suffering,
     tabes, tachycardia, tender spot, throes, toil, torment, torture,
     travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, try, tumor, tweak, twinge,
     twist, twist the knife, upset, upset stomach, vertigo, vexation,
     vomiting, wasting, well-deserved punishment, what-for, while, woe,
     woebegoneness, woefulness, wound, wrench, wretchedness, wring
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  PAIN, n.  An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical
  basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely
  mental, caused by the good fortune of another.