pain

IPA: pˈeɪn

(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]

(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.

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.