Definition

/peɪn/

noun

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.”
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.”
(from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
“Your mother is a right pain.”
Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
“You may not leave this room on pain of death.”
(chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

verb

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.”
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
“It pains me to say that I must let you go.”
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.