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Meaning of pains
noun
- 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. Example: I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
- The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress Example: In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
- (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing. Example: Your mother is a right pain.
- Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty. Example: You may not leave this room on pain of death.
- (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
verb
- To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. Example: The wound pained him.
- To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. Example: It pains me to say that I must let you go.
- To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
noun
- Any of various breads stuffed with a filling. Example: gammon pain; Spanish pain
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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