Word Meaning

pains definition and meaning

n. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
n. 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.
n. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
n. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
n. See Pains, labor, effort.
n. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
n. To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
n. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
n. Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.

Crossword clues for pains

- Ache
- Distressed
- Emotional distress
- Heartache
- Hurt
- Kindly sorrow
- Left out plain suffering
- Pure agony, in name at first
- Saline element
- Suffering
- Careful effort
- Penalties
- Pests from Spain