Word Finder - pain

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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.

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

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

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

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

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Your mother is a right pain.

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Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

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You may not leave this room on pain of death.

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

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

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The wound pained him.

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To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

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

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To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

The pain threatened to cripple him again.

In fact, she felt no pain at all, anywhere.

The pain in his arm became more and more intense.

His expression was a fifty-fifty mixture of pain and anger.

It seems, however, that, while she was still suffering from severe pain, she noticed the movements of her mother's lips.

What is that pain like?

As for Claire … pain spiraled through him.

I'm sick of pain.

You'll always carry that pain, if you don't let yourself become whole again.

After the second day's march Pierre, having examined his feet by the campfire, thought it would be impossible to walk on them; but when everybody got up he went along, limping, and, when he had warmed up, walked without feeling the pain, though at night his feet were more terrible to look at than before.

She was in pain she didn't understand.

He was reliving the pain of Darian's death, sickened by his own cowardice.

We have ended pain as entertainment—or at least, involuntary participation in pain as entertainment.

He recalled agony, and the darkness of his thoughts amplified the pain of the new magic in his blood.

Realization washed over her in alternating waves of pain and numbness.

While the fools looked for my car nearby, I, in spite of excruciating pain, managed to escape their feeble efforts to find me.

The child cannot believe that the strongest and wisest of its people have no remedy for its pain, and the hope of relief and the expression of its mother's sympathy while she rubs the bump comforts it.

As big a pain Quinn is at times, I know he's as committed as the rest of us to helping as many kids as possible.

The thrills of joy and thrills of pain are undistinguishable.

When they paused on the bank, she could stand the pain no longer.

She cried out in pain.

Dusty straightened, the pain of his memories subsiding.

The pain in her stomach was almost crippling.

Frankly, it's a pain in the ass with five people using one bathroom.

She hadn't cried in years, unless it was out of pain from a particularly bad beating.

She tried to think of how she could soften the pain she'd bring him.

She'd struggled with Claire, wanting to spare him the pain he'd unleashed on her.

She caught her breath in a startled gasp of pain.

It was easy for us to recognize Martha's pain with the subject.

You are spared the pain of many sights and sounds, which you are only too happy in escaping.

I passed out again but gradually, the pain in my left side and my throat brought me to a state of half-wakefulness.

She winced and pulled away, remembering the pain too well.

Her heart raced to the point of pain, and she felt sick enough to puke.

Jilian injected me with something to kill me, she paused, shuddering at the flash of residual pain from the memories.

They were the kind of fangs a man fantasized about, not too large to cause damage but sharp enough to offer an exquisite combination of pleasure and pain if she nipped him.

Pain made her gasp as blood welled and spilled.

He stared down at her, his eyes full of pain.

He had suffered extreme pain for years before his death, and in fact broke down altogether under disease contracted in the discharge of his duty.

The pain caused by his removal into the hut had made him groan aloud and again lose consciousness.

Maybe he thinks I was in pain; that you were hurting me!

I cried out and my throat suddenly blazed in sharp pain.

While she could heal, she still felt pain.

For the first time in thousands of years, he remembered what real pain felt like.

She shivered from cold and pain.

If she were perfectly still, she could deal with the pain.

He was not a pretty boy but a man with rugged, bad-boy beauty and a slow sensuality about his movement that made her heart skip a beat despite her pain.

His fury, pain, and sorrow choked her.

After the initial shock, she felt the pleasure, warm and hot, burning and mixing with the pain.

You are happy enough I no longer need to dull the pain.

Deidre heard the pain in Past-Death's voice and felt sorry for her.