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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Pain \Pain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pained (p[=a]nd); p. pr. &
     vb. n. Paining.] [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to
     fatigue. See Pain, n.]
     1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.]
        --Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. --Locke
        .
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to
        grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              I am pained at my very heart.         --Jer. iv. 19.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's self; to take
        pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] ``She pained her to do all
        that she might.'' --Chaucer.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve;
          distress; agonize; torment; torture.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Pain \Pain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pained; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Paining.] [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See
     Pain, n.]
     1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.]
        --Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).
  
     2. 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. --Locke
        .
  
     3. 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.         --Jer. iv. 19.
  
     To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's self; to take
        pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] ``She pained her to do all
        that she might.'' --Chaucer.
  
     Syn: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve;
          distress; agonize; torment; torture.

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  paining
     vb.
     (present participle of en pain nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  paining
     vb.
     (present participle of en pain nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  paining
     vb.
     (present participle of en pain nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  paining
     vb.
     (present participle of en pain nocat=1)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  paining
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en pain ordform=prespart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb pain)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Paining /pˈeɪnɪŋ/
  الأذى

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  paining /pˈeɪnɪŋ/
  schmerzend, weh tuend
     Synonym: anguishing
  
   see: pain, anguish, pained, anguished
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  paining /pˈeɪnɪŋ/
  schmerzlich berührend, schmerzend, im Innersten/in der Seele wehtuend, zu Herzen gehend, beelendend, in die Seele schneidend
     Synonyms: grieving, being painful, causing pain, distressing, making miserable
  
   see: grieve sb., pain sb., be painful for sb., cause sb. pain, distress sb., make sb. miserable, grieved, pained, been painful, caused pain, distressed, made miserable, It grieves me to see more and more land being sealed and lost as green space., It sometimes does cause me pain to see people being unappreciative of my work., The pictures visibly pain her., It distresses me to see perfectly good food just being thrown away.
  

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