Pain, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Pained (pānd); p. pr. & vb. n.Paining.] [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See Pain, n.] 1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).
2. 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.
Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. Locke.
3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents.
I am pained at my very heart. Jer. iv. 19.
To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. “She pained her to do all that she might.” Chaucer.
Syn. — To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture.