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The correct spelling is pains.
How to pronounce pains
/peɪnz/
nounIPA: /peɪnz/
Say it like: Pay-ns
The correct spelling is pains. 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.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.The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
- 3.(from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
- 4.Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
- 5.(chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
verb
- 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.To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
- 3.To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
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