(cause physical pain to)

  • 1pain — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Suffering Noun 1. pain, suffering, sufferance; hurt, cut; discomfort, painfulness; discomfort, malaise; nightmare; anguish, agony, misery, excruciation, torment, torture, rack; Weltschmerz; distress,… …

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  • 2pain — /payn/, n. 1. physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc. 2. a distressing sensation in a particular part of the body: a back pain. 3. mental or emotional suffering or torment: I am sorry my news causes you such pain. 4. pains …

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  • 3Pain — This article is about physical pain. For pain in the broader sense, see Suffering. For other uses, see Pain (disambiguation). Pain A sports player in pain. ICD 10 R52 …

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  • 4pain — noun 1 physical pain ADJECTIVE ▪ acute, agonizing, awful, blinding, excruciating, extreme, great, immense, intense, severe …

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  • 5Pain (philosophy) — Philosophy of pain may be about suffering in general or more specifically about physical pain. The experience of pain is, due to its seeming universality, a very good portal through which to view various aspects of human life. Discussions in… …

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  • 6pain — I UK [peɪn] / US noun Word forms pain : singular pain plural pains *** 1) [countable/uncountable] a feeling that you have in a part of your body when you are hurt or ill chest/stomach pains Harry has been enduring considerable back pain for a… …

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  • 7Pain model of behaviour management — The pain model is a behaviour management model developed for teachers who work with students who have extremely challenging behaviours, social problems and a lack of social skills. The model s strategies may also be used by teachers to prevent… …

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  • 8pain — pain1 [ peın ] noun count or uncount *** 1. ) a feeling that you have in a part of your body when you are hurt or become sick: chest/stomach pains Harry has been enduring considerable back pain for a number of years. pain in: I m having terrible… …

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  • 9pain — [[t]peɪn[/t]] n. 1) physical suffering typically from injury or illness 2) an instance of such suffering; a distressing sensation in a part of the body: a back pain[/ex] 3) severe mental or emotional distress: the pain of loneliness[/ex] 4) pains …

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  • 10pain — 1 /peIn/ noun 1 PHYSICAL (C, U) the feeling you have when part of your body hurts: be in pain (=having a pain in part of your body): Take these tablets if you re in pain. | feel pain: We ve given him an anaesthetic so he shouldn t feel any pain.… …

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