Meaning

• 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.

  "I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet."

• The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress

  "In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life."

• (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.

  "Your mother is a right pain."

• Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

  "You may not leave this room on pain of death."

• (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

Meaning

• To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.

  "The wound pained him."

• To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

  "It pains me to say that I must let you go."

• To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.