Definitions for pained

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Spelling: [peynd]

IPA: /peɪnd/

Pained is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in pained (adeinp).

Definitions for pained

noun

1. physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
2. a distressing sensation in a particular part of the body:
3. mental or emotional suffering or torment:
4. pains. laborious or careful efforts; assiduous care: the suffering of childbirth.
5. Informal. an annoying or troublesome person or thing.

Idioms

1. feel no pain, Informal. to be intoxicated:
2. on / upon / under pain of, liable to the penalty of:
3. pain in the ass, Slang: Vulgar. pain (def 5).
4. pain in the neck, Informal. pain (def 5).

adjective

1. hurt; injured.
2. showing or expressing distress, anguish, or resentment:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause physical pain to; hurt.
2. to cause (someone) mental or emotional pain; distress:

verb (used without object)

1. to have or give pain.

Origin of pained

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50; See origin at pain, -ed²

Examples for pained

Yet he was pained at the information imparted by his sister Winnie who was good.

I confess, Eudora, it pained me to see you listen to his idle flattery.

Or so the chapter titles formally name him, in a nod, perhaps, to his pained formality.

A pained Gallo makes it clear who he thinks the real victims are when he cries “why they want to see us suffer?”

He put his hands up to his head, as if it throbbed or pained him.

A pained Yanukovych made his last and most gloomy video address to the Ukrainian people.

He tossed my hand from him with a whirl, that pained my very shoulder.

Cooper spoke of how pained he was that Garner will never get that chance with his own kids.

Mr. Withells stood stock-still where he was, in pained astonishment.

Cosby conspiracy theorists share a perspective born of a long, pained history of American racism.