pain

The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.

I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.

(countable and uncountable) 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.

When the pains are every five minutes and quite strong or the cervix is five cm. dilated along with regular and strong pains, the mother is given a block anesthesia of 1 cc. of 1:200 nupercaine, 1 cc. of 10 per cent dextrose with .05 cc. of 1:1000 adrenalin.

1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 99:

(now usually in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.

In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.

The pain of departure was difficult to bear.

And I should tell him all my pain,
And how my life had droop’d of late,
And he should sorrow o’er my state
And marvel what possess’d my brain; […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XIV, page 22:

(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress

Your mother is a right pain.

Today is match day, Grimsby Town are at home, and the ground is walking distance from New Clee station. So, visiting football supporters coming by train have to change at Grimsby Town [station]. That's a real pain.

2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 58:

(countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.

You may not leave this room on pain of death.

We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.

1629, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement Touching a Holy War:

Seb[astian]. […] [M]y duty, then, / To interpoſe; on pain of my diſpleasure, / Betwixt your Swords[.] / Dor[ax]. On pain of Infamy / He ſhould have diſobey'd.

1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 105:

(uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

(chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

en-noun

pain (countable and uncountable, plural pains)

From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”).
Doublet of peine. Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old English sār (whence Modern English sore).


pain

The wound pained him.

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

It pains me to say that I must let you go.

(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

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

Please help me, I am paining hard.

Oh my head is aching, oh Lord Damodara [Visnu], give me "kazhi". The neck is paining, oh Lord Kamadeva give me relief. My chest is paining, oh Lord Madhava, give me relief.

2001, Sarah Caldwell, quoting C. Choondal, “Waves of Beauty, Rivers of Blood: Constructing the Goddess in Kerala”, in Tracy Pintchman, editor, Seeking Mahādevī: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess, page 104:

A lady visited the doctor, a general physician and complained of a lot of pain.
The doctor asked her where she experienced pain.
The lady touched her right knee and said, 'It is paining here doctor.'
Then she touched her stomach and said, 'It is paining here too doctor.'

2009, Nithyananda Paramahamsa, Bliss Is the Goal and the Path, page 124:

(intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.

en-verb

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

pains (present singular third-person)
paining (participle present)
pained (participle past)
pained (past)

آلَمَ

to hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish


pain

gammon pain; Spanish pain

(obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

From Middle English payn (“a kind of pie with a soft crust”), from Old French pain (“bread”).