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pained

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pain  (pn)
n.
1. An unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder.
2. Suffering or distress.
3. pains The pangs of childbirth.
4. pains Great care or effort: take pains with one's work.
5. Informal A source of annoyance; a nuisance.
v. pained, pain·ing, pains
v.tr.
To cause pain to; hurt or injure.
v.intr.
To be the cause of pain.
Idiom:
on/under pain of
Subject to the penalty of (a specified punishment, such as death).

[Middle English, from Old French peine, from Latin poena, penalty, pain, from Greek poin, penalty; see kwei-1 in Indo-European roots.]
Synonyms: pain, ache, pang, smart, stitch, throe, twinge
These nouns denote a sensation of severe physical discomfort: abdominal pain; aches in my leg; the pangs of a cramped muscle; aspirin that alleviated the smart; a stitch in my side; the throes of dying; a twinge of arthritis.

pained [peɪnd]
adj
having or expressing pain or distress, esp mental or emotional distress a pained expression
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.pained - hurt or upset; "she looked offended"; "face had a pained and puzzled expression"
displeased - not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure

pained
adjective distressed, worried, hurt, injured, wounded, upset, unhappy, stung, offended, aggrieved, anguished, miffed (informal), reproachful He looked at me with a pained expression.
Translations
pained [peɪnd] ADJ [expression] → dolorido, de dolor; [voice] → afligido
Frank gave him a pained lookFrank le dirigió una mirada dolorida or de dolor
pained [ˈpeɪnd] adj [expression, look] → peiné(e)
pained
adj expression, voiceschmerzerfüllt; to look painedschmerzerfüllt aussehen
pained [peɪnd] adj a pained expressionun'aria seccata
a pained silence → un silenzio amareggiato
pained [peɪnd] adj a pained expressionun'aria seccata
a pained silence → un silenzio amareggiato


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AN Editor who was always vaunting the purity, enterprise, and fearlessness of his paper was pained to observe that he got no subscribers.
SOME Holy Missionaries in China having been deprived of life by the Bigoted Heathens, the Christian Press made a note of it, and was greatly pained to point out the contrast between the Bigoted Heathens and the law-abiding countrymen of the Holy Missionaries who had wickedly been sent to eternal bliss.
I told him, too, that he being in other things such an extremely sensible and sagacious savage, it pained me, very badly pained me, to see him now so deplorably foolish about this ridiculous Ramadan of his.
 
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