Meaning of PAIN
Pronunciation: | | peyn
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WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain"
- [n] 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"
- [n] emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness"
- [n] a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain"
- [n] a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension"
- [v] cause bodily suffering to
- [v] cause anguish or make miserable
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| Synonyms: | | afflict, ail, anguish, annoyance, bother, botheration, hurt, hurting, infliction, nuisance, pain in the ass, pain in the neck, pain in the neck, painful sensation, painfulness, trouble |
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| Antonyms: | | pleasance, pleasure | |
| See Also: | | ache, aching, agonise, agonize, agony, arthralgia, break out, burn, burning, causalgia, chest pain, chiralgia, colic, costalgia, disagree with, disagreeable person, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, distress, distress, dysmenorrhea, erupt, excruciate, excruciation, feeling, glossalgia, glossodynia, growing pains, growing pains, haemorrhoid, hemorrhoid, hurt, hurt, intestinal colic, irritant, keratalgia, labor pain, mastalgia, melagra, mental anguish, meralgia, metralgia, mittelschmerz, myalgia, myodynia, negative stimulus, nephralgia, neuralgia, neuralgy, nuisance, odynophagia, orchidalgia, pang, pang, phantom limb pain, photalgia, photophobia, piles, plague, pleuralgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, proctalgia, rack, recrudesce, referred pain, renal colic, smart, smarting, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia, soreness, sting, stinging, stitch, suffer, suffering, suffering, symptom, tenderness, thermalgesia, thorn, throb, torment, torment, torture, torture, try, twinge, twinge, ulalgia, unpleasant person, unpleasantness, untune, upset, urodynia | |
Products Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | Pain Description not available. more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Pain\, n. [OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena, penalty,
punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr. ? 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.
We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.
--Bacon.
Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. --Dryden.
None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.
--Addison.
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.
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
referred to the peripheral end of the nerve.
3. pl. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came
upon her. --1 Sam. iv.
19.
4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety;
grief; solicitude; anguish. --Chaucer.
In rapture as in pain. --Keble.
5. See {Pains}, labor, effort.
{Bill of pains and penalties}. See under {Bill}.
{To die in the pain}, to be tortured to death. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
\Pain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pained}; 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).
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.
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.
I am pained at my very heart. --Jer. iv. 19.
{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.
Syn: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve;
distress; agonize; torment; torture.
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Dream Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | Dreaming that you are in pain means that you are being too hard on yourself with regards to a situation that was out of your control. It may also be a true reflection of real pain that exists somewhere in your body. Dreams can reveal and warn about health problems.
Dreaming that you are inflicting pain to yourself, indicates that you are experiencing some overwhelming turmoil or problems in your waking life. You are trying to disconnect yourself from your reality by concentrating on the pain that you inflicted to yourself. |
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Biology Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | Pain is a sensation of suffering due to some form of stimulation of nerve endings. Pain is characterized by: - the location: identified by anatomy (e.g. back, chest, head, etc.)
- the quality: local, diffuse, constant, intermittent, burning, shooting, gnawing, sharp, dull, throbbing, etc
- radiation: the distribution from the place where it is felt worst
- frequency (continually, occasionally, etc.)
- triggering agents: exercise, emotional state, ingestion of certain food, etc.
- associated symptoms: shortness of breath (sometimes with chest pain), photophobia (often with migraine), bloating (often with gallstones), etc.
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