noun ·see pains, labor, effort.
2. pain ·noun specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
3. pain ·noun to inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
4. pain ·noun uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
5. pain ·noun punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
6. pain ·noun to render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
7. pain ·noun 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.
8. pain ·noun 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.