paining

Verb

pain (third-person singular simple present pains, present participle paining, simple past and past participle pained)

1. (transitive) 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.

   Synonyms:

   afflict, hurt, ache, aggrieve, agonize, anguish, dere, excruciate, irritate, pang

2. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
   • It pains me to say that I must let you go.

   Synonyms:

   afflict, torment, lacerate, aggrieve, plague, atray, cag, distress, engrieve, grame

3. (obsolete, transitive) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
4. (dated, intransitive) To hurt; to feel painful.
   • My infernal thumb pains yet like the very devil.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
5. (India, intransitive) To feel pain; to hurt.
   • Please help me: I am paining hard.

   Synonyms:

   ache, suffer, agonize, anguish, hurt, passion, thole, throe, wark, wring

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