2. n. Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
She was worn out from so much grief.
The betrayal caused Jeff grief.
3. n. Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.
4. v. (online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the gam
1. n. 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.
2. n. 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.
3. n. (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
Your mother is a right pain.
4. n. (obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
You may not leave this room on pain of death.
5. n. Labour; effort; pains.
6. v. 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.
7. v. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
It pains me to say that I must let you go.
8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
9. n. (obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
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