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Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted
as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime;
penalty. |
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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. |
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Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. |
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Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety;
grief; solicitude; anguish. |
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See Pains, labor, effort. |
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To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. |
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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. |
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To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to
grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents. |