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Meaning Of Pain

  1. n.
    Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
  2. n.
    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.
  3. n.
    Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
  4. n.
    Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
  5. n.
    See Pains, labor, effort.
  6. n.
    To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  7. n.
    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.
  8. n.
    To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.



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