Pain vs Murder - What's the difference?
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(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.
(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
(countable) An annoying person or thing.
(uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
Labour; effort; pains.
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
(obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
(label) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
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(label) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
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, title= The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
Something terrible to endure.
(label) A group of crows;
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* {{quote-book, 2001, (Daniel Handler), The Vile Village, isbn=0064408655, page=76
, passage=Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton.}}
To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
(transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial) To defeat decisively.
To botch or mangle
* {{quote-book, 1892, William Shepard Walsh, Handy-book of Literary Curiosities
, passage=Dr. Caius, the Frenchman in the play, and Evans the Welshman, "Gallia et Guallia," succeed pretty well in their efforts to murder the language.}}
(figuratively, colloquial) To kick someone's ass]] or [[chew out, chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
(figuratively, colloquial, British) to devour, ravish.
In uncountable terms the difference between pain and murder
is that pain is the condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude while murder is the crime of deliberate killing of another human.In countable terms the difference between pain and murder
is that pain is an annoying person or thing while murder is a group of crows; the collective noun for crows.As nouns the difference between pain and murder
is that pain is 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 while murder is an act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.As verbs the difference between pain and murder
is that pain is to hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture while murder is to deliberately kill (a person or persons).As a proper noun Pain
is an English surname, variant of Paine.pain
English
Noun
- The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain .
- I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
- In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
- The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
- Your mother is a right pain .
- 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
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 alsoAntonyms
* pleasureHyponyms
* agony * anguish * pang * neuropathic pain * nociceptive pain * phantom pain * psychogenic painDerived 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 * painyVerb
(en verb)- The wound pained him.
- It pains me to say that I must let you go.
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* 1000 English basic words ----murder
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(wikipedia murder)Noun
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder . It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
- It may be guessed, indeed, that this was the original form of the story, the fairy being the addition of those who considered Jack's thefts from (and murder of) the giant to be scarcely justified without her.
- Captain Sulu, who served under the legendary James T. Kirk for many years, disobeys Starfleet orders in order to try and help Kirk and another old shipmate, Dr. McCoy, who have been imprisoned for the murder of the Klingon chancellor.
- Dr. Herrera also knew Hemingway had held Batista's army personally responsible for the brutal murders of his dogs, Blackie (Black Dog) and Machakos.
Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?, passage=Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.}}
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "murder": atrocious, attempted, brutal, cold-blooded, double, heinous, horrible, premeditated, triple, terrible, unsolved.Synonyms
* (act of deliberate killing) homicide, manslaughter, assassination * (group of crows) flockDerived terms
* attempted murder * cry blue murder * first-degree murder * get away with murder * mass murder * murderer * murderess * murder in the first degree * murder in the second degree * murderize * murder one * murderous * murdersome * murder weapon * murder will out * second-degree murder * wink murderVerb
(en verb)- The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband.
- Our team is going to murder them.
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- He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!
- I could murder a hamburger right now.