Pain vs. Pains — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pain and Pains
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Definitions
Pain
Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage." In medical diagnosis, pain is regarded as a symptom of an underlying condition.
Pains
An unpleasant feeling occurring as a result of injury or disease, usually localized in some part of the body
Felt pains in his chest.
Pain
Highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury
She's in great pain
Chest pains
Pains
Bodily suffering characterized by such feelings
Drugs to treat pain.
Pain
Great care or trouble
She took pains to see that everyone ate well
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Pains
Mental or emotional suffering; distress.
Pain
Cause mental or physical pain to
It pains me to say this
Her legs had been paining her
Pains
An instance of this
The pains of humiliation.
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.
Pains
Pains The pangs of childbirth.
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Pain
Bodily suffering characterized by such feelings
Drugs to treat pain.
Pains
Pains Great care or effort
Taking pains with one's work.
Pain
Mental or emotional suffering; distress.
Pains
(Informal) A source of annoyance; a nuisance
Stuffing all these envelopes is a real pain.
Pain
An instance of this
The pains of humiliation.
Pains
To cause physical pain to; hurt
My feet really pained me after the hike.
Pain
Pains The pangs of childbirth.
Pains
To cause mental or emotional distress to
"It pained him to remember every little thing about her" (John Irving).
Pain
Pains Great care or effort
Taking pains with one's work.
Pains
Plural of pain
Pain
(Informal) A source of annoyance; a nuisance
Stuffing all these envelopes is a real pain.
Pains
Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
Pain
To cause physical pain to; hurt
My feet really pained me after the hike.
Pains
Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; - plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
And all my pains is sorted to no proof.
The pains they had taken was very great.
The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled.
Pain
To cause mental or emotional distress to
"It pained him to remember every little thing about her" (John Irving).
Pains
An effortful attempt to attain a goal
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.
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.
Pain
An annoying person or thing.
Your mother is a right pain.
Pain
Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
You may not leave this room on pain of death.
Pain
Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
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
