pain
/peɪn/ n [C/U]Definition
› a bad or unpleasant physical feeling, often caused by injury or illness, that you want to stop, or an emotional feeling of this type: [U] Your whole perspective on life changes when you’re in pain. [C] He was admitted to the hospital with chest pains. pain /peɪn/ v [T] › fml It pained him when he did not make the high school football team. painful /ˈpeɪn·fəl/ adj › A painful leg injury forced her to withdraw from the competition.
(Definition of pain n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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