pain

Noun

pain (countable and uncountable; plural pains)

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; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.

   In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.

   The pain of departure was difficult to bear.

3. (countable) An annoying person or thing.

   Your mother is a right pain.

4. (uncountable) (obsolete) Suffering seen as a punishment or penalty.

   You may not leave this room on pain of death.

   Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. — Dryden

   We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. — Bacon

4 letters in word "pain": A I N P.

Anagrams of pain:

• nipa

• pian

• pina

Words found within pain:

ai ain an ani in na nap nip pa pan pi pia pin

• Definitions:
• a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness" a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain" afflict: cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain" cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school" annoyance: 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"
• Pain is the first album released by the Swedish industrial metal band Pain. Pain was released in 1996 on the German label Nuclear Blast.
• A much-talked-about issue in philosophy is the role of pain. Pain is often referred to in philosophical discussions concerning qualia and the fundamental nature of human experience. The meanings and consequences of pain have been a topic of writing by philosophers and theologians alike. ...
• Pain is an industrial metal band from Sweden. The band started out as a hobby project for front man Peter Tägtgren, who's idea was to fuse metal with techno influences. Tägtgren, who is also the lead singer of Hypocrisy and producer of his own The Abyss studios, is the only current member. ...
• Pain is a punk rock band based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Though they have not produced any chart-topping hits, the band enjoyed a semi-mainstream following after Cartoon Network started airing a short two-minute music video set to their song Jabberjaw (Running Underwater), featuring the cartoon ...
• Pain is a song on Puff Daddy's 1997 album No Way Out
• Pain is a song by the American band Jimmy Eat World. It was released as the first single from their 2004 album Futures and became their second #1 hit on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was featured on Tony Hawk's Underground 2
• Pain is the second single from alternative metal band Three Days Grace's second album, One-X.
• An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.
• Unpleasant physical or mental sensation. It is not always easy to tell if another entity is in pain and the difficulties increase as the dissimilarities between the entities increase. For example, can fish feel pain? Fish can't scream or grimace in the ways that we can when in pain. ...
• An unfulfilled business need that jeopardizes the success of the organization.
• [French] bread.
• a rule/regulation of the manor
• suffering, as in: He took a nap, and when he awoke the pain of his headache was gone.
• feeling of: s. vedaná.
• An abused child's security blanket
• A sensation of discomfort, hurt, stress or agony, resulting from stimulation of specialized nerve endings. Pain means something is wrong, and should not be ignored. The saying, "no pain, no gain" is outmoded.
• Unwanted physical sensation. Pain is a property of Ego. Pain results from Evil. Pain denies Bliss.
• A sensation that can range from mild, localized discomfort to agony. Pain has both physical and emotional components. The physical part of pain results from nerve stimulation.
• is defined in medicine as the physical sensation of discomfort or distress caused by injury or illness. This assumes that there is a cause recognizable in biology for every pain - which is an effect. ...
• Sensation of discomfort, distress, or agony, resulting from the stimulation of specialized nerve endings. It serves as a protective mechanism (induces the sufferer to remove or withdraw).
• Pain is an emotion experienced in the brain, it is not like touch, taste, sight, smell or hearing. It is categorised into Acute Pain less than twelve weeks duration and Chronic Pain of more than twelve weeks. ...
• a sharp stinging localized pain
• (1297): Punishment. This is its original meaning. And since punishment meant suffering it was metaphorical used to denote that as well.
• (NAH-zahn) (noun) (some things Google found for "nazan": an uncommon to common term; a feminine first name, notably Turkish pop music singer/songwriter Nazan Öncel and Turkish actress Nazan Kirilmis; The Nazan Bay Inn on Aleutian island of Atka and place Nazan both in Alaska; user names; a last ...
• is both a sensory and emotional experience, generally associated tissue damage, or inflammation. Pain is ultimately a perception, and not an objective bodily state.

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