noun

1. 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.”

2. 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.”

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

   “Your mother is a right pain.”

Synonyms: pest

verb

1. 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.”

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

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

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