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      pain
      noun
      (countable and uncountable) 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.
      (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
      (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
      (now usually in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
      (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
      A surname.
      Acronym of pan-assay interference compound. [Any compound that produces a false positive in many biochemical assays]
      (uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
      (obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
      verb
      (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
      (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
      (intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.
      (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
      Roots
      poenapain- · Latin · penalty, punishment
      Synonyms for pain
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