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Paine, Thomas
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Paining definitions
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Pain 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.
