pain

noun

1. (countable, 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. (countable, plural-normally, 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.

   “When the pains are every five minutes and quite strong or the cervix is five cm. dilated along with regular and strong pains, the mother is given a block anesthesia of 1 cc. of 1:200 nupercaine, 1 cc. of 10 per cent dextrose with .05 cc. of 1:1000 adrenalin.”

3. (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.”

   “And I should tell him all my pain, ⁠And how my life had droop’d of late, ⁠And he should sorrow o’er my state And marvel what possess’d my brain; […]”

4. (countable)An annoying person or thing.

   “Your mother is a right pain.”

   “Today is match day, Grimsby Town are at home, and the ground is walking distance from New Clee station. So, visiting football supporters coming by train have to change at Grimsby Town [station]. That's a real pain.”

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

   “You may not leave this room on pain of death.”

   “We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.”

   “Seb[astian]. […] [M]y duty, then, / To interpoſe; on pain of my diſpleasure, / Betwixt your Swords[.] / Dor[ax]. On pain of Infamy / He ſhould have diſobey'd.”

6. (countable, in-plural, uncountable)Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
7. (obsolete)Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

   “gammon pain; Spanish pain”

8. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of pan-assay interference compound.

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. (obsolete, transitive)To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
4. (dated, intransitive)To hurt; to feel painful.

   “My infernal thumb pains yet like the very devil.”

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

   “Please help me: I am paining hard.”

   “Oh my head is aching, oh Lord Damodara [Visnu], give me "kazhi". The neck is paining, oh Lord Kamadeva give me relief. My chest is paining, oh Lord Madhava, give me relief.”

   “A lady visited the doctor, a general physician and complained of a lot of pain. The doctor asked her where she experienced pain. The lady touched her right knee and said, 'It is paining here doctor.' Then she touched her stomach and said, 'It is paining here too doctor.'”

name

1. A surname.