Definition of "pain" in English

noun

1. (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 pain.
   • I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.

2. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress

   • In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
   • The pain of departure was difficult to bear.

3. (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.

   • Your mother is a right pain.

4. (uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

   • You may not leave this room on pain of death.

5. (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

verb

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

   • It pains me to say that I must let you go.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

4. (intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.

   • Please help me, I am paining hard.

noun

1. (obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

   • gammon pain; Spanish pain