Agony vs. Pain
Agony and Pain Definitions
Agony
The suffering of intense physical or mental pain
The injured soldier writhed in agony.
Pain
An unpleasant feeling occurring as a result of injury or disease, usually localized in some part of the body
Felt pains in his chest.
Agony
An instance of such suffering
The agonies of adolescence.
Pain
Bodily suffering characterized by such feelings
Drugs to treat pain.
Agony
A sudden or intense emotion
"Jones then fell upon his knees, and kissed her hand in an agony of joy" (Henry Fielding).
Pain
Mental or emotional suffering; distress.
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Agony
A violent, intense struggle, especially the struggle that precedes death.
Pain
An instance of this
The pains of humiliation.
Agony
Extreme pain.
When the weight fell on her foot, she cried out in agony.
Pain
Pains The pangs of childbirth.
Agony
(Bible) The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
Pain
Pains Great care or effort
Taking pains with one's work.
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Agony
Violent contest or striving.
Pain
(Informal) A source of annoyance; a nuisance
Stuffing all these envelopes is a real pain.
Agony
Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
Pain
To cause physical pain to; hurt
My feet really pained me after the hike.
Agony
The last struggle of life; death struggle.
Pain
To cause mental or emotional distress to
"It pained him to remember every little thing about her" (John Irving).
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Agony
Violent contest or striving.
The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations.
Pain
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.
The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
Agony
Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly.
Pain
(uncountable) 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.
The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
Agony
Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
With cries and agonies of wild delight.
Pain
An annoying person or thing.
Your mother is a right pain.
Agony
The last struggle of life; death struggle.
Pain
Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
You may not leave this room on pain of death.
Agony
Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;
An agony of doubt
The torments of the damned
Pain
Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
Agony
A state of acute pain
Pain
Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
Gammon pain; Spanish pain
Pain
(transitive) 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.
Pain
(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
It pains me to say that I must let you go.
Pain
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Pain
To feel pain; to hurt.
Please help me, I am paining hard.
Pain
Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.
Interpose, on pain of my displeasure.
None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.
Pain
Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
Pain
Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her.
Pain
Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain.
In rapture as in pain.
Pain
See Pains, labor, effort.
Pain
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Pain
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.
Pain
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.
Pain
A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder;
The patient developed severe pain and distension
Pain
Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid;
The pain of loneliness
Pain
A somatic sensation of acute discomfort;
As the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain
Pain
A bothersome annoying person;
That kid is a terrible pain
Pain
Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness;
Washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer
A bit of a bother
He's not a friend, he's an infliction
Pain
Cause bodily suffering to
Pain
Cause emotional anguish or make miserable;
It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school
