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The Meaning of pain

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

Synonyms

hurting , painfulness , pain sensation , painful sensation , pain in the neck , nuisance , annoyance , bother , botheration , infliction , pain in the neck , pain in the ass , trouble , ail , anguish , hurt

Antonyms

pleasure

Homophones

paign , paine , pane , payne

Rhymes

abstain , again , ahlen , aine , airplane , alain , alaine , alane , alayne , allain , ane , aquitaine , arcane , arraign , ascertain , attain , aven , ayn , bahrain , bain , baine , bane , bayne , beauchaine , beauchene , biplane , birdbrain , biscayne , blain , blaine , blane , blayne , bloodstain , brain , brattain , brisbane , butane , cain , caine , campaign , cane , cayne , cellophane , chain , champagne , champaign , champlain , charlayne , charlemagne , chastain , cheyne , chlordane , cocaine , complain , constrain , contain , costain , crain , craine , crane , crayne , dahrain , dane , dayne , decrane , defrain , deign , delaine , demain , deschaine , detain , devane , dewayne , disdain , dogbane , domain , domaine , drain , draine , drane , duan , duane , duchaine , dufrane , duquesne , dushane , duwayne , dwayne , elaine , elane , elayne , entertain , ethane , explain , eyestrain , fain , fane , feign , fein , floodplain , fontaine , forebrain , frain , fraine , frane , frayn , frayne , frein , gain , galane , germain , germaine , germane , grain , grein , hahne , hain , hane , hayn , hayne , helane , henbane , heyn , heyne , hossain , humane , hurricane , hussein , iain , inane , inhumane , insane , jain , jane , jayne , jermaine , jyishane , kahane , kain , kaine , kane , kayne , krain , krane , krein , lafountain , lain , laine , lane , laraine , legerdemain , lehane , lennane , lindane , ln , lorain , loraine , lorraine , maclaine , main , maine , maintain , mane , mayne , mcbain , mcbane , mccain , mccane , mcclain , mcclaine , mcclane , mcguane , mckain , mckane , mclain , mclane , mclean , mcquain , mcwain , membrane , messiaen , methane , meyn , migraine , monoplane , morain , moraine , mundane , mustain , obtain , okane , ordain , overtrain , paign , paine , pane , payne , pentane , pertain , plain , plane , polyurethane , preordain , procaine , profane , propane , quain , rain , raine , rayne , refrain , regain , reign , rein , reine , remain , restrain , retain , retrain , romain , romaine , ruane , sain , sane , sartain , seatrain , serbaine , shain , shaine , shane , shayne , skein , slain , slaine , slane , spain , sprain , stain , stane , strain , sustain , swain , swaine , swayne , terrain , thain , thaine , thane , tirane , torain , train , trane , tremaine , tulane , twain , ukraine , uptain , urbain , urbane , urethane , vain , vane , vein , veyne , vrain , wain , wane , warplane , wayne , windowpane , zane