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something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"

a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain"

emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness"

cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"

something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"

a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain"

emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness"

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.

Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.

See Pains, labor, effort.

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.

Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.

See Pains, labor, effort.

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

An unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli and generally received by specialized nerve endings.

Distress of body or mind; penalty; as, on pain of death.

To cause bodily suffering to; to hurt; to make uneasy; to grieve.

An abnormal sensation transmitted by the nerves, causing suffering.

Bodily suffering: anguish:-pl. labor: the throes of childbirth.

To distress: to torment: to grieve.

Mental or bodily suffering; in.

To give pain to distress.

To hurt; distress.

Any distressful feeling; suffering.

Care, trouble, or exertion.

Punishment; penalty.

A disagreeable sensation, which scarcely admits of definition. It is generally symptomatic, and is called acute, (F.) aigue, when very violent, as a twinge; pungent, (F.) pongitive, when it resembles that which would be produced by a sharp instrument run into the part: heavy, (F.) gravative, when attended with a sensation of weight; tensive, when the part seems distended: lancinating, when occurring in shoots: lacerating or tearing, when the part seems to be tearing: burning, (F.) brulante, when resembling that produced by a burn, &c.

See Triticum-p. a Coucou, Oxalis acetosella- p. de Madagascar, Jatropha manihot- p. de Pourceau, Cyclamen.

Distress or suffering.

A sensation in consciousness, drawing attention to a disorder of a bodily function, at a physico-chemical, sensory or psychical level. In the pl. the throes of childbirth, [Old Fr]

n. [Latin, Greek] An uneasy sensation in animal bodies of any degree; bodily distress; suffering; specifically, the throes or distress of travail or childbirth;—uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief;—labour; toilsome effort; task—chiefly in the plural form;—labour; penalty; punishment suffered or denounced on evil or crime.