Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pain \Pain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pained}; 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. [Obs.]
      --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. [Obs.] ``She pained her to do all
      that she might.'' --Chaucer.

   Syn: To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve;
        distress; agonize; torment; torture.