pain
/peɪ̯n/ noun B1- 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.
- The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
- 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.
- An annoying person or thing. · Your mother is a right pain.
- Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty. · You may not leave this room on pain of death.
- Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
Plural pains
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Shere Khan had jumped at a woodcutter’s campfire, as Father Wolf had said, and was furious from the pain of his burned feet.
Marilla told Matthew the whole story, taking pains to impress him with a due sense of the enormity of Anne’s behavior.
She had had one of her headaches that afternoon, and although the pain had gone she felt weak and “tuckered out,” as she expressed it.
All “spirit and fire and dew,” as she was, the pleasures and pains of life came to her with trebled intensity.
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