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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Shere Khan had jumped at a woodcutter’s campfire, as Father Wolf had said, and was furious from the pain of his burned feet.
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.
At sight of her Anne tried to scramble to her feet, but sank back again with a sharp little cry of pain.
Overcome by the pain of her injury, Anne had one more of her wishes granted to her.
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