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  1. noun An unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder.
  2. noun Suffering or distress.
  3. noun The pangs of childbirth.
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  • Because Gemm has never been exposed to pain, the pain is to be a terrible jolt, a slap in the face; a wake-up call without parallel. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 02 - August 1999
  • Another migraine remedy to help ease the pain is acupuncture. —  Improving Your Health
  • Helping take her mind off the pain was a nurse's bandaging of Pooh Bear and her father's headstands whenever the pain medicine arrived. —  Greeley Tribune - Top Stories
  • If you say this week your pain is a 4 and next week you say your pain is a 6, that shows worsening of Home for the HolidaysYour guide to the season's best food, entertaining, and gifts. —  About.com Arthritis
  • Reductions in the frequency of the headache and the severity of the pain were also observed in people in the B vitamin group, while no such changes were observed in the placebo group. —  NutraIngredients RSS
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  1. Middle English, from Old French peine, from Latin poena, penalty, pain, from Greek poinē, penalty; see kwei-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English paine, payne, peine, peyne, from Old French peine, paine, payne, poine, poene, French peine = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian pena, from Latin pœna, Middle Latin pena, a fine, penalty, punishment, later also hardship, pain, from Greek ποινή, a fine, penalty, retribution, punishment, vengeance. Hence ult. (from Latin pœna) English penal, penalty, punish, punitive, impune, impunity, penitent, penitence, penance, repent, etc., and (through Anglo-Saxon) English pine.
  2. from Middle English paynen, peinen, peynen, Old French peiner, pener, painer, poener, French peiner = Spanish Portuguese penar = Italian penare, from Middle Latin pænare, inflict as a penalty, punish, from Latin pæna, penalty, pain: see pain, n.
  3. Middle English, also payn, payne, from Old French pain, French pain = Spanish pan = Portuguese pão = Italian pane, from Latin panis, masculine, sometimes pane, neuter, bread, a loaf; akin to pabulum, food, pascere, feed: see pasture. Hence, from Latin panis, ult. English panter, pantry, appanage, etc.
 

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