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pain

/peɪn/
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.

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

  2. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress

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

  3. (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.

    "Your mother is a right pain."

Synonymspest
Antonymspleasure
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.

    "The wound pained him."

  2. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

    "It pains me to say that I must let you go."

  3. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

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