Noun

(en noun)

A painful or trying experience.

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A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.

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.