pain
IPA: pˈeɪn
noun
- (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
- (now usually in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
- (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
- (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
- (uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
- (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
- (obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
- A surname.
- Acronym of pan-assay interference compound. [Any compound that produces a false positive in many biochemical assays]
verb
- (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
- (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
- (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
- (intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.
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Examples of "pain" in Sentences
- The pain disappears.
- The pain was endurable.
- The pain is insufferable.
- The pain was excruciating.
- It was painful in doing the chores.
- The beak contains nociceptors that sense pain and noxious stimuli.
- The lack of pain is diagnosed as congenital insensitivity to pain.
- Pain causes discomfort so that the organism is inclined to stop the pain.
- Empathy for pain involves the affective but not the sensory components of pain.
- We now live longer with less health problems that cause pain, and impair mobility.
- But in the case of pain, we don't seem to semantically apply PAIN, or ˜pain™ for that matter, to tissue damage.
- Therefore in the balance between the pleasure of general _society_, and the pain of absolute solitude, _pain_ is the predominant idea.
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- The conscious infliction of pain _for the sake of the pain_ is against the better nature of man, and it is unsafe and demoralizing for any one to undertake this duty.
- We should also note that the pain scientists themselves who wrote up the IASP definition of ˜pain™ and the accompanying note seem to side with Dennett on the truth of (14).
- In the early hours of that day a knot of women, one of them beating a drum, others lugubriously chanting _du pain, du pain_, bread, bread, appeared in the streets of Paris.
- I think I just like saying I'm a pagan to enjoy the pain on the faces of all the Christians..pain first, then shock, then righteous indignation...hope your feeling better soon...
- This nerve also senses facial pain, so as the signals are conducted the brain interprets the pain as coming from the forehead - the same \ "referred pain\" phenomenon seen in heart attacks.
- All that tearing down Don had been doing, ripping out cabinets, extra studs, lath and plaster, the house was writhing with the pain of it like having its teeth pulled, and now this, whatever he was doing, this new sound, the house was in _pain_.
- There is no better way of testing whether pain has been felt than by taking the lacerated or contused gums of the patient between the index finger and thumb and making a gentle pressure to collapse the alveolar borders; invariably, they will cry out lustily, _that is pain_!