Word Finder - pained

definition

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.

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In pain, especially in an emotional sense.

He turned on Megan with a pained expression.

Anatole was not upset or pained by what she had said.

Aren't they afraid of sinning?... said the same mob now, looking with pained distress at the dead body with its long, thin, half-severed neck and its livid face stained with blood and dust.

Dazed and pained, she couldn't help but wish she'd just jumped off the ledge instead.

Seeing her so broken pained him.

He reached out to her, pained by her beaten appearance.

You don't want to look back at photographs of this special day and see a pained grimace where a big smile should be.

He stood in the middle with a suit hanger in his hand, and turned to her with a pained expression.

Soon after its appearance in print I was pained to learn, through the Goodson Gazette, that a portion of the story (eight or nine passages) is either a reproduction or adaptation of Miss Margaret Canby's "Frost Fairies."

A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant as he rode by.

If you feel uncomfortable or pained, consult your physician since he or she will likely want to see you more often during the months leading up to birth than during a typical single pregnancy.

A look of pained yearning crossed the girl's face, as if she wanted badly to speak but couldn't.

The possibility tonight could be their last together pained him so deeply he shuddered.

It pained Dean to see her 30 pounds thinner, wearing an ill fitting wig in place of her waist-length ebony hair, but her indomitable spirit continued to leave him in awe.

His mouth twitched in a pained grimace.

One species can utter a cry when pained or alarmed, and the tall-standing frilled lizard can lift its forelegs, and squat or hop like a kangaroo.

He still, to use his own words, hung his new exposition on to "the old doctrines, however much they at times pained me, rather than on to the purer and clearer"; for he hoped that the reformation of the Church would proceed quietly and from within.

The spell, however, of O'Connell's power had vanished; his health had suffered much from a short confinement; he was verging upon his seventieth year; and he was alarmed and pained by the growth of a party in the repeal ranks who scoffed at his views, and advocated the revolutionary doctrines which he had always feared and abhorred.

One who feels pained or pleased, who feels hot or cold or resisting in touch, who tastes the flavoured, who smells the odorous, who hears the sounding, who sees the coloured, or is conscious, already believes that something sensible exists before conception, before inference, and before language; and his belief is true of the immediate object of sense, the sensible thing, e.g.

When I feel pleased or pained, or when I use my senses to perceive a pressure, a temperature, a flavour, an odour, a colour, a sound, or when I am conscious of feeling and perceiving, I cannot resist the belief that something sensible is present; and this belief that something exists is already a judgment, a judgment of existence, and, so far as it is limited to sense without inference, a true judgment.

To say "Majuba" and "Gordon" recalls its deepest hurts, but not all of them; and it may be that a pained and angry people, looking back, saw in the man whom they lately displaced more than they had ever seen before.

Their second song, "Out in the Woods," is unbearably poignant with aching cello and strange, pained Eastern European strings.

Poor fellow, he was slain, and my heart was deeply pained at his loss and in sympathy with his stricken family.

I know a lot of survivors and I don't know any who are so pained that they can't function.

Caruso has a slightly pained expression that flits across his rather feminine face from time to time.

By this time the bride had a very pained expression.

She has a rather pained look on her face.

My voice has a tendency to sound quite pained and rough round the edges.

Bea notices Meg looking pained at Sally's heavy handed attempts to impose discipline.

Some of our Phase III beneficiaries have not pained their houses after being supply with paints.

Fred Weasley - The loss of one of the beloved Weasley twins pained the entire Weasley family.

Rhyn saw the pained look that crossed Kris.s face.

Sarah wore a pained expression that caused Jackson to cringe.

I was pained to hear of Rissa's death.

Men's minds were pained and disquieted by the conflict of duties and the absence of spiritual consolation.