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pain-making

pain-making adjective: pain-causing; deliberately painful.

Adjective

pain-making (comparative more pain-making, superlative most pain-making)

  1. Pain-causing; deliberately painful.

Noun

pain-making (uncountable)

  1. The act of causing pain.

Forms of pain-making

comparativemore pain-making
superlativemost pain-making

Questions about pain-making

What does pain-making mean?
Pain-making means pain-causing; deliberately painful.
What part of speech is pain-making?
Pain-making can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near pain-making in the dictionary

  1. pain score
  2. pain scores
  3. pain threshold
  4. pain thresholds
  5. pain-free
  6. pain-making
  7. pain-racked
  8. pain-relieving
  9. painable
  10. painal
  11. painch

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