- pain⇄expr. feel no pain, to be intoxicated.
Ex. Having come down out of the woods to Berlin, Jack was feeling no pain (Atlantic). - pain⇄expr. on (or under) pain of, with the punishment or penalty of, unless a certain thing is done.
Ex. The traitor was ordered to leave the country on pain of death. - pain⇄expr. pain in the neck, (Slang.) a very troublesome or irritating thing or person.
Ex. O'Malley is tall and gentle, and has a wife who is a pain in the neck (Frank O'Connor). - pain⇄expr. pains,
a. trouble to do something; effort; care.
Ex. She took pains to be neat. Great ... pains have been taken to inflame our minds (Edmund Burke). You ... are like to have nothing but your travel for your pains (John Bunyan).
- pain⇄noun 1. a feeling of being hurt; suffering.
Ex. A cut gives pain.
2. a single or localized feeling of hurt.
Ex. a sharp pain in one's back. A toothache is a pain.
3. mental suffering; grief; sorrow.
Ex. The death of one we - pain⇄pain, noun, verb.
- pain⇄v.i. to cause suffering; give pain.
Ex. a natural desire to pain (Rudyard Kipling). - pain⇄v.t. to cause to suffer; give pain to.
Ex. Does your tooth pain you?
(SYN) hurt, afflict, torture.