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Grimace vs Pain - What's the difference?

grimace | pain |

As a verb grimace

is .

As an adverb pain is

towards, in/to the direction of.

As a noun pain is

.

grimace

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary and occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.
  • * "I trundle off to bed, eyes brimming, face twisted into a grateful glistening grimace , and awaken the next day wondering what all the fuss was about." — Opera News , March 2005

    • Verb

    (grimac)
  • To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

    • pain

    English

    Noun

  • (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.
    • The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain .
    I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
  • (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
    • In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
    The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
  • (countable) An annoying person or thing.
    • Your mother is a right pain .
  • (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
    • You may not leave this room on pain of death.
    Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. — Dryden
    We will, by way of mulct or pain , lay it upon him. — Bacon
  • Labour; effort; pains.

    • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.

    Synonyms

    * (an annoying person or thing) pest * See also

    Antonyms

    * pleasure

    Hyponyms

    * agony * anguish * pang * neuropathic pain * nociceptive pain * phantom pain * psychogenic pain

    Derived terms

    * pain in the arse * pain in the ass * pain in the back * pain in the bum * pain in the butt * pain in the neck * painkiller * painy

    Related terms

    * pained * painful * painfully * painless * painlessly * painlessness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
    • It pains me to say that I must let you go.
  • (obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

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