Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - pain
Pain
pain
n. & v. --n. 1 a the range of unpleasant bodily sensations produced by illness or by harmful physical contact etc. b a particular kind or instance of this (often in pl.: suffering from stomach pains). 2 mental suffering or distress. 3 (in pl.) careful effort; trouble taken (take pains; got nothing for my pains). 4 (also pain in the neck) colloq. a troublesome person or thing; a nuisance. --v.tr. 1 cause pain to. 2 (as pained adj.) expressing pain (a pained expression). Phrases and idioms in pain suffering pain. on (or under) pain of with (death etc.) as the penalty. Etymology: ME f. OF peine f. L poena penalty
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French peine, from Latin poena, from Greek poinē payment, penalty; akin to Greek tinein to pay, tinesthai to punish, Avestan kaēnā revenge, Sanskrit cayate he revenges Date: 14th century punishment, 2. usually localized physical suffering associated with bodily disorder (as a disease or an injury), acute mental or emotional distress or suffering ; grief, the throes of childbirth, trouble, care, or effort taken to accomplish something , one that irks or annoys or is otherwise troublesome, ~less adjective ~lessly adverb ~lessness noun II. verb Date: 14th century transitive verb to make suffer or cause distress to ; hurt, to put (oneself) to trouble or exertion, intransitive verb suffer, to give or have a sensation of ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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