Thesaurus: pain

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1. n. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
2. n. Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
3. n. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
4. n. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
5. n. See Pains, labor, effort.
6. n. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
7. n. To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
8. n. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
9. n. a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
10. n. emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
11. n. a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
12. n. something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness