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pain

The correct spelling is pain.

How to pronounce pain

/peɪn/
noun

IPA: /peɪn/

Say it like: Pay-n

The correct spelling is pain. An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. For example: "I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet."

Usage Examples

I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.

In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.

Your mother is a right pain.

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
  2. 2.The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
  3. 3.(from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
  4. 4.Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
  5. 5.(chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

verb

  1. 1.To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
  2. 2.To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  3. 3.To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

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