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paining

 

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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pain  \Pain\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Pained};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Paining}.]  [OE.  peinen  OF  pener,  F.  peiner  to  fatigue.  See 
  {Pain},  n.] 
  1.  To  inflict  suffering  upon  as  a  penalty;  to  punish.  [Obs.] 
  --Wyclif  (Acts  xxii.  5). 
 
  2.  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 
 
  Excess  of  cold,  as  well  as  heat,  pains  us  --Locke 
  . 
 
  3.  To  render  uneasy  in  mind;  to  disquiet;  to  distress;  to 
  grieve;  as  a  child's  faults  pain  his  parents. 
 
  I  am  pained  at  my  very  heart.  --Jer.  iv  19. 
 
  {To  pain  one's  self},  to  exert  or  trouble  one's  self  to  take 
  pains;  to  be  solicitous.  [Obs.]  ``She  pained  her  to  do  all 
  that  she  might.''  --Chaucer. 
 
  Syn:  To  disquiet;  trouble;  afflict;  grieve;  aggrieve; 
  distress;  agonize;  torment;  torture.




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