Pain vs. Pains

Pain vs. Pains — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Pain and Pains

Painnoun

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.

Painsnoun

plural of pain

Painnoun

(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.

Painsnoun

(used in plural) Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.

Painnoun

An annoying person or thing.

Your mother is a right pain.

Painsnoun

an effortful attempt to attain a goal

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Painnoun

Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

You may not leave this room on pain of death.

Painnoun

Labour; effort; pains.

Painnoun

Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

gammon pain; Spanish pain

Painverb

(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.

Painverb

(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

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

Painverb

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

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Painnoun

a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder;

the patient developed severe pain and distension

Painnoun

emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid;

the pain of loneliness

Painnoun

a somatic sensation of acute discomfort;

as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain

Painnoun

a bothersome annoying person;

that kid is a terrible pain

Painnoun

something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness;

washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washera bit of a botherhe's not a friend, he's an infliction

Painverb

cause bodily suffering to

Painverb

cause emotional anguish or make miserable;

It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school