PAIN

[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.