pain
/peɪ̯n/ verb C2- To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. · The wound pained him.
- To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. · It pains me to say that I must let you go.
- To hurt; to feel painful.
- To feel pain; to hurt. · Please help me: I am paining hard.
He/she/it pains · Past pained · Past participle pained · -ing form paining
Verb forms
- Base form
- pain
- He/she/it
- pains
- Past
- pained
- Past participle
- pained
- -ing form
- paining
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He then went away, and Miss Bingley was left to all the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no one any pain but herself.
But one of them who was exceedingly old (for many a field had he plowed) thus spoke: “These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain.
The Sheep, writhing with pain, said, “Why do you hurt me so, Mistress?
I do assure you that the news does not affect me either with pleasure or pain.
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