Noun pain has 5 senses
  1. pain, hurting - a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension"
    --1 is a kind of symptom
    --1 has particulars:
     ache, aching; agony, suffering, excruciation; arthralgia; burn, burning; causalgia; colic, intestinal colic; chest pain; chiralgia; distress; dysmenorrhea; glossalgia, glossodynia; growing pains; hemorrhoid, haemorrhoid, piles; keratalgia; labor pain; mastalgia; melagra; meralgia; metralgia; myalgia, myodynia; nephralgia; neuralgia, neuralgy; odynophagia; orchidalgia; pang; pang, sting; photalgia, photophobia; pleurodynia, pleuralgia, costalgia; podalgia; proctalgia; referred pain; renal colic; smart, smarting; sting, stinging; stitch; tenderness, soreness; thermalgesia; throb; torture, torment; ulalgia; urodynia
    Derived forms: verb pain2, verb pain1
  2. pain, painfulness - emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness"
    --2 is a kind of feeling
    Antonyms: pleasure, pleasance
    --2 has particulars:
     growing pains; unpleasantness; mental anguish; suffering, hurt; distress, hurt, suffering
    Derived form: verb pain2
  3. pain, painful sensation - a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain"
    --3 is a kind of somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation
    --3 has particulars: mittelschmerz; phantom limb pain; twinge
    Derived form: verb pain1
  4. pain, pain in the neck, nuisance - a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain"
    --4 is a kind of unpleasant person, disagreeable person
  5. annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass - something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"
    --5 is a kind of negative stimulus
    --5 has particulars: nuisance; irritant, thorn; plague
    Derived form: verb pain2
,Verb pain has 2 senses
  1. afflict, trouble, ail, pain - cause bodily suffering to
    --1 is one way to hurt
    Derived forms: noun pain3, noun pain1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s somebody
  2. pain, anguish, hurt - cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"
    --2 is one way to upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
    Derived forms: noun pain5, noun pain2, noun pain1
    Sample sentence:
    The bad news will pain him
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