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n. An unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder.

n. Suffering or distress.

n. The pangs of childbirth.

n. Great care or effort: take pains with one's work.

n. Informal A source of annoyance; a nuisance.

v. To cause pain to; hurt or injure.

verb-intransitive. To be the cause of pain.

idiom. on Subject to the penalty of (a specified punishment, such as death).

n. 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.

n. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.

n. An annoying person or thing.

n. (obsolete) Suffering seen as a punishment or penalty.

v. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.

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

v. (obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

n. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

n. Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.

n. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

n. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain.

n. See Pains, labor, effort.

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

v. To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture

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

n. Penalty; punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for a crime, or annexed to the commission of a crime.

n. Uneasiness or distress of body or of mind; bodily or mental suffering.

n. Specifically — In the plural, the throes or distress of travail or childbirth.

n. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; solicitude; grief; sorrow.

n. Labor; exertion; endeavor; especially, labor characterized by great care, or by assiduous attention to detail and a desire to secure the best results; care or trouble taken in doing something: used chiefly in the plural: as, to spare no pains to be accurate; to be at great pains or to take great pains in doing something. The form pains has been used by good writers as a singular, as in the quotation from Shakspere below.

n. Trouble; difficulty.

n. Synonyms Pain, Ache, Twinge. All the words expressing physical pain are applicable, by familiar and therefore not emphatic figure, to pain of mind. Pain is the general term; ache represents a continued local pain; it is often compounded with a word expressing the place, as headache, toothache. Twinge represents a sudden, momentary pain, as though one had been griped or wrung. See agony.

n. 2 . Bitterness, heartache, affliction, woe, burden.

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty or punishment; torture; punish.

To trouble or annoy with physical or mental suffering.

To render uneasy in mind; trouble or annoy with mental suffering; distress; disquiet; grieve.

To cause to take pains; put to exertion: used reflexively.

To put to trouble or pains.

Synonyms To hurt, agonize, torment, torture, rack, excruciate.

To suffer; be afflicted with pain.

n. Bread.

n. An obsolete spelling of pane.

n. a bothersome annoying person

n. something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness

n. a somatic sensation of acute discomfort

v. cause emotional anguish or make miserable

v. cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed

n. emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid

n. a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder

"We should also note that the pain scientists themselves who wrote up the IASP definition of ˜pain™ and the accompanying note seem to side with Dennett on the truth of (14)."

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