PAIN


Meaning of PAIN in English

[noun] - (a feeling of) physical suffering caused by injury or illness, or emotional sufferingThe symptoms of the disease include abdominal pain and vomiting. [U]Are you in (= suffering from) pain? [U]These tablets should help to ease the pain. [U]I felt a sharp pain in my foot and realized I had stepped on some glass. [C]He's been suffering various aches and pains for years. [C]The prisoners were subjected to unnecessary pain and suffering. [U]They were shattered by their daughter's death - the pain of their loss will be with them for many years. [U]The parents are still in great pain over the death of their child. [U]It's a film about the pains and pleasures of parenthood. [C](informal) If you describe a person or a situation as a pain in the neck or a pain, you think that it or they are very annoying.It's such a pain having to go shopping.That child is a pain in the neck.(slang) A person or thing that is a pain in the backside/(UK and ANZ also) arse/(US also) butt/ass is very annoying.(formal) If you are instructed to do something on/under pain of a particular punishment, you will be punished in this way if you do not do it.They were ordered never to return to their country on pain of death.

Cambridge English vocab.      Кембриджский английский словарь.