| Pain (pain) |
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| Pain |
| [OE. peine, F.
peine, fr. L. poena, penalty, punishment, torment, pain]
akin to Gr. (?) penalty. Cf. Penal, Pine to
languish, Punish.] |
Punishment suffered
or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime,
or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
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.
Specifically, the throes or
travail of childbirth.
Uneasiness of mind; mental distress;
disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
See Pains, labor, effort.
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To inflict suffering upon as a penalty] to
punish.
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.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to
distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his
parents.
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