pain
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pain/peɪn/
▶noun
- 1 a strongly unpleasant bodily sensation such as is caused by illness or injury.
- 2 mental suffering or distress.
- 3 (also pain in the neck or vulgar slang arse) informal an annoying or tedious person or thing.
- 4 (pains) careful effort.
■ chiefly N. Amer. (of a part of the body) hurt.
– phrases
on (or under) pain of on penalty of.
on (or under) pain of on penalty of.
– derivatives
pained adjective.
pained adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. peine, from L. poena ‘penalty’, later ‘pain’.
'pain' also found in these Oxford entries:
ache
- afflict
- affliction
- -algia
- algolagnia
- allay
- alleviate
- anaesthesia
- anaesthetic
- analgesia
- analgesic
- angina
- anguish
- arthralgia
- aspirin
- backache
- bellow
- bellyache
- bitter
- bittersweet
- blench
- Bornholm disease
- causalgia
- claudication
- clove
- colchicine
- colic
- collywobbles
- comfort
- counterirritant
- courage
- cramp
- craniosacral therapy
- cruel
- decompression sickness
- discomfort
- distress
- diverticular disease
- diverticulitis
- dolorous
- dolour
- double
- earache
- eina
- embrocation
- endometriosis
- exclaim
- exclamation
- fear
- fibromyalgia
