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# pain

«pain» in Mova's school dictionary: **the feeling you have when part of your body is hurt or ill** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pain, pains; pain — uncountable); verb (pain — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Pain is the feeling you have when part of your body is hurt or ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#m1)

2) Pain can be a feeling of great sadness: the pain of losing a pet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#m2)

3) «A pain» (informal) is an annoying person or thing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#m3)

4) «Take pains» means try very hard to do something carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#m4)

5) To pain someone means to hurt them or make them feel sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In health and science, pain is a warning signal from nerves to the brain that something is wrong; tell an adult about pain that is strong, keeps coming back, or follows a fall or bite. In first aid, cool a burn with water to ease pain. Phrases: «in pain», «a pain in the neck» (annoying), «growing pains», «no pain, no gain» (hard work brings results), «pain-free».

### examples

- I have a pain in my tummy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#x1)
- He was in pain after he fell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#x2)
- Tell an adult if the pain gets worse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#x3)
- Cool water helps the pain of a burn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#x4)
- My little brother can be a pain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#x5)
- She took great pains to make the card neat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#x6)
- Losing her dog caused her a lot of pain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#x7)
- Painkillers should only be taken with an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#x8)
- His foot pained him more and more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/#x9)

### note

Uncountable as a feeling («a lot of pain»), countable for a single one («sharp pains»). «Painful» = causing pain. Homophone: «pane» (a sheet of glass in a window) sounds the same.

### In the corpora

- [Playing too long without breaks can cause overuse injuries, and pushing through pain can make them worse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/17/)
- [The bullet ant has one of the most painful insect stings known, and the pain can last for many hours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/8/)
- [Animals feel pain and fear like us, so hurting them on purpose is wrong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/11/)
- [Cone snails shoot a harpoon-like tooth full of venom into fish, and pain medicines have been made from cone snail venom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus/10/)
- [Toad feels «a dull pain in the lower part of his spine» — that is how fear feels to him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/55-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pain» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pain/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.