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proper noun
- An English surname, variant of Paine.
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noun
- (italbrac, 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.
- The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic .
- I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
- (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
- In the final analysis, is a fact of life.
- The of departure was difficult to bear.
- (countable) An annoying person or thing.
- Your mother is a right .
- (uncountable) (obsolete) Suffering seen as a punishment or penalty.
- You may not leave this room on of death.
- Interpose, on of my displeasure. — Dryden
- We will, by way of mulct or , lay it upon him. — Bacon
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.
- The wound pained him.
- (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
- It pains me to say that I must let you go.
- (transitive) (obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Etymology: Old (and modern) French peine < poena "punishment, pain" < Ancient Greek (poine) "bloodmoney, were-gild, fine, price paid, penalty"
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