pain — Defs

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

1.
Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
“We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.” — Bacon.

“Interpose, on pain of my displeasure.” — Dryden.

“None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.” — Addison.
2.
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.
3.
Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
“She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her.” — 1 Sam. iv. 19.
4.
Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain. Also: mental pain
“In rapture as in pain.” — Keble.
5.
See Pains, labor, effort. See: Pains

Phrases & compounds

Bill of pains and penalties — See under Bill.

To die in the pain — to be tortured to death.

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

imp. & p. p. Pained; p. pr. & vb. n. Paining

1.
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.[Obs.]
2.
To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
“Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us.” — Locke.
3.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents.
“I am pained at my very heart.” — Jer. iv. 19.

Phrases & compounds

To pain one's self — to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous.