pain meaning

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Pain is an unpleasant feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli, such as stubbing a toe,
Pain motivates the individual to withdraw from damaging situations,
Pain is the most common reason for physician consultation in most advanced countries such as the Uni

pain

NounPLpainsSUF-ain
1. (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
  1. The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
  2. I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
VerbSGpainsPRpainingPT, PPpained
1. VT To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
  1. The wound pained him.
More Examples
1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
  - HZ as a subsequent reactivation, more seldom as a result of reinfection, of VZV presents as a clinical syndrome characterized by a unilateral radicular pain and avesicular, distributed cutaneous rash.
  - These results are clinically relevant because the anteriorisation of posture is known to be injurious, in particular as concerns low-back pain and knee pain.
  - And, in this country, the traditional, ingrained way to dehumanize people, to make both their pain and their individuality irrelevant, is to rely on their race.
2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
  - Pain is better than numbness, and broken-heartedness better than stony-heartedness, as surely as it is better to be alive than dead.
3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
  - The salve made the soreness go away, but with the aches gone I suddenly noticed my other pains.
  - The most common foot-related injury I see for the weekend warrior is heel pain.
  - There are hueseros, who set bones, and sobadors, who massage away pain.

Meaning of pain for the defined word.

Grammatically, this word "pain" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.

Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
1. Nouns
  - Countable nouns
  - Singularia tantum
    - Uncountable nouns
2. Verbs
  - Transitive verbs

Difficultness: Level 1

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Definiteness: Level 9

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Definite ➨ Versatile