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pained adjective [ peɪnd ]

• affected with pain, especially mental pain; hurt or troubled.
• "a pained expression came over his face"
Similar: upset, hurt, wounded, injured, insulted, offended, aggrieved, affronted, displeased, distressed, disgruntled, put out, annoyed, angered, angry, cross, exasperated, indignant, irritated, vexed, piqued, irked, stung, galled, nettled, needled, peeved, ruffled, resentful, in a huff, huffy, in high dudgeon, fed up, riled, miffed, rattled, aggravated, peed off, hacked off, narked, eggy, cheesed off, browned off, brassed off, not best pleased, teed off, ticked off, sore, miffy, snuffy, pissed off,

pain verb

• cause mental or physical pain to.
• "it pains me to say this"
Similar: hurt, cause pain, be painful, be sore, ache, throb, smart, burn, prickle, sting, pinch, twinge, cause discomfort, be tender, kill, play up, sadden, grieve, distress, make miserable/wretched, trouble, worry, bother, perturb, disturb, oppress, harrow, cause anguish to, afflict, cut to the quick, mortify, torment, torture, wound, gnaw at,
Origin: Middle English (in the sense ‘suffering inflicted as punishment for an offence’): from Old French peine, from Latin poena ‘penalty’, later ‘pain’.


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