Clues for the word "PAIN"

We've had 177 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 424 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on June 07, 2026.

Definition of pain

n. - Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
n. - Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
n. - Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
n. - Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
n. - See Pains, labor, effort.
n. - To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
n. - 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.
n. - To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.