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Webster's 1828 DictionaryPAIN, n. [L. paena; Gr. penalty, and pain, labor.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)n Merriam Webster's
Britannica ConcisePhysical suffering associated with a bodily disorder (such as a disease or injury) and accompanied by mental or emotional distress. Pain, in its simplest form, is a warning mechanism that helps protect an organism by influencing it to withdraw from harmful stimuli (such as a pinprick). In its more complex form, such as in the case of a chronic condition accompanied by depression or anxiety, it can be difficult to isolate and treat. Pain receptors, found in the skin and other tissues, are nerve fibers that react to mechanical, thermal, and chemical stimuli. Pain impulses enter the spinal cord and are transmitted to the brain stem and thalamus. The perception of pain is highly variable among individuals; it is influenced by previous experiences, cultural attitudes (incl. gender stereotypes), and genetic makeup. Medication, rest, and emotional support are the standard treatments. The most potent pain-relieving drugs are opium and morphine, followed by less-addictive substances and non-narcotic analgesics such as aspirin and ibuprofen. Oxford Reference Dictionaryn. & v. --n. 1 a the range of unpleasant bodily sensations produced by illness or by harmful physical contact etc. b a particular kind or instance of this (often in pl.: suffering from stomach pains). 2 mental suffering or distress. 3 (in pl.) careful effort; trouble taken (take pains; got nothing for my pains). 4 (also pain in the neck) colloq. a troublesome person or thing; a nuisance. --v.tr. 1 cause pain to. 2 (as pained adj.) expressing pain (a pained expression). Phrases and idioms: in pain suffering pain. on (or under) pain of with (death etc.) as the penalty. Etymology: ME f. OF peine f. L poena penalty Webster's 1913 DictionaryPain Pain, n. [OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena, penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr. ? penalty. Cf. Penal, Pine to languish, Punish.] 1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. --Chaucer. We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. --Bacon. Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. --Dryden. None shall presume to fly, under pain of death. --Addison. 2. 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. ``The pain of Jesus Christ.'' --Chaucer. Note: Pain may occur in any part of the body where sensory nerves are distributed, and it is always due to some kind of stimulation of them. The sensation is generally referred to the peripheral end of the nerve. 3. pl. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. --1 Sam. iv. 19. 4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. --Chaucer. In rapture as in pain. --Keble. 5. See Pains, labor, effort. Bill of pains and penalties. See under Bill. To die in the pain, to be tortured to death. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Webster's 1913 DictionaryPain Pain, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pained; p. pr. & vb. n. Paining.] [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See Pain, n.] 1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5). 2. 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. Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. --Locke . 3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents. I am pained at my very heart. --Jer. iv. 19. To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] ``She pained her to do all that she might.'' --Chaucer. Syn: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary(pains, pained) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Pain is the feeling of great discomfort you have, for example when you have been hurt or when you are ill. ...back pain. ...a bone disease that caused excruciating pain... I felt a sharp pain in my lower back... ...chest pains. N-VAR • If you are in pain, you feel pain in a part of your body, because you are injured or ill. She was writhing in pain, bathed in perspiration. PHRASE: PHR after v 2. Pain is the feeling of unhappiness that you have when something unpleasant or upsetting happens. ...grey eyes that seemed filled with pain. = anguish N-UNCOUNT 3. If a fact or idea pains you, it makes you feel upset and disappointed. This public acknowledgment of Ted's disability pained my mother... It pains me to think of you struggling all alone. VERB: no cont, V n, it V n to-inf, also it V n that 4. In informal English, if you call someone or something a pain or a pain in the neck, you mean that they are very annoying or irritating. Expressions such as a pain in the arse and a pain in the backside in British English, or a pain in the ass and a pain in the butt in American English, are also used, but most people consider them offensive. (INFORMAL) PHRASE: pain inflects, v-link PHR, PHR to-inf [disapproval] 5. If someone is at pains to do something, they are very eager and anxious to do it, especially because they want to avoid a difficult situation. Mobil is at pains to point out that the chances of an explosion at the site are remote. = anxious PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR to-inf 6. If someone is ordered not to do something on pain of or under pain of death, imprisonment, or arrest, they will be killed, put in prison, or arrested if they do it. We were forbidden, under pain of imprisonment, to use our native language. PREP-PHRASE 7. If you take pains to do something or go to great pains to do something, you try hard to do it, because you think it is important to do it. Social workers went to great pains to acknowledge men's domestic rights... I had taken great pains with my appearance. PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR to-inf International Standard Bible Encyclopediapan (chul, chil, chebhel, chalah, chalchalah, ka'-ebh, ke'ebh, metsar, makh'obh, `amal, tsir; basanizo, ponos, odin): These words signifying various forms of bodily or mental suffering are generally translated "pain"; 28 out of the 34 passages in which the word is used are in the poetical or prophetical books and refer to conditions of mental disquiet or dismay due to the punishment of personal or national sin. There is only one instance where the word is used as a historic record of personal physical pain: the case of the wife of Phinehas (1Sa 4:19), but the same word tsir is used figuratively in Isa 13:8; 21:3; Da 10:16, and translated "pangs" or "sorrows." In other passages where we have the same comparison of consternation in the presence of God's judgments to the pangs of childbirth, the word used is chebhel, as in Isa 66:7; Jer 13:21; 22:23; 49:24. In some of these and similar passages several synonyms are used in the one verse to intensify the impression, and are translated "pain," "pangs," and "sorrows," as in Isa 13:8. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
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