pain

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a somatic sensation of acute discomfort

   as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain

2. 2
   noun

   a bothersome annoying person

   that kid is a terrible pain

3. 3
   noun

   a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder

   the patient developed severe pain and distension

4. 4
   verb

   cause emotional anguish or make miserable

   It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school

5. 5
   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.

   The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   An annoying person or thing.

   Your mother is a right pain.

8. 8
   noun

   Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

   You may not leave this room on pain of death.

Etymology

From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”), from Proto-Hellenic *kʷoinā́, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂ (“payment”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *cěnà (“price”)). Doublet of peine. Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old English sār (whence Modern English sore).