Unscramble pains

Definition of pains

noun:

• an effortful attempt to attain a goal. Synonyms: nisus, strain, striving.
• a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension". Synonyms: hurting, pain.
• emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness". Synonyms: pain, painfulness. Antonyms: pleasure.
• a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain". Synonyms: pain, pain sensation, painful sensation.
• a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain". Synonyms: nuisance, pain, pain in the neck.
• something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer", "a bit of a bother", "he's not a friend, he's an infliction". Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck.

verb:

• cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed. Synonyms: ail, pain, trouble.
• cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school". Synonyms: anguish, hurt, pain.

Related words

ache, aching, agonise, agonize, agony, arthralgia, burn, burning, causalgia, chiralgia, colic, costalgia, distress, dysmenorrhea, erupt, excruciate, excruciation, glossalgia, glossodynia, gripes, griping, haemorrhoid, hemorrhoid, hurt, irritant, jehad, jihad, keratalgia, mastalgia, melagra, meralgia, metralgia, mittelschmerz, myalgia, myodynia, nephralgia, neuralgia, neuralgy, nuisance, odynophagia, orchidalgia, pang, photalgia, photophobia, piles, plague, pleuralgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, proctalgia, rack, rawness, recrudesce, smart, smarting, smartness, soreness, sting, stinging, stitch, suffering, tenderness, thermalgesia, thorn, throb, torment, torture, try, twinge, ulalgia, unpleasantness, urodynia.

Words nearby

pain, paine, paint.

Rhymes with

chains, keynes, manes, remains, remains.