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Pain \Pain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pained} (p[=a]nd); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Paining}.] [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to
fatigue. See {Pain}, n.]
1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.]
--Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).
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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.
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Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. --Locke
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3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to
grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents.
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I am pained at my very heart. --Jer. iv. 19.
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{To pain one's self}, to exert or trouble one's self; to take
pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] "She pained her to do all
that she might." --Chaucer.
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Syn: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve;
distress; agonize; torment; torture.
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pained \pained\ adj.
Made to suffer mental pain.

Syn: offended.
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