Word Meaning

Meaning of pains

- Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
- 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.
- Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
- Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
- See Pains, labor, effort.
- To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
- 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.
- To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
- Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.

Crossword clue for pains

- Ache
- Discomfort
- Distressed
- Emotional distress
- Heartache
- Hurt
- Kindly sorrow
- Left out plain suffering
- Pure agony, in name at first
- Saline element
- Suffering
- Careful effort
- Penalties
- Pests from Spain