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Synonyms & Antonyms of pain
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- the child was crying because of a pain in her knee
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- a sprained ankle caused him great pain for a week
Synonyms for pain
- affliction,
- agony,
- anguish,
- distress,
- excruciation,
- hurt,
- misery,
- rack,
- strait(s),
- torment,
- torture,
- travail,
- tribulation,
- woe
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- asked the movers to take pains to be sure that they didn't damage anything while moving the furniture
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- she was at pains to reassure us that everything would be fine
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- effort,
- elbow grease,
- exertion,
- expenditure,
- labor,
- sweat,
- trouble,
- while,
- work
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- sometimes that child, who apparently never tires of asking questions, can be such a pain
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verbSynonyms of pain (Entry 2 of 2)
- my poor head was paining so from all that racket
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“Pain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pain. Accessed 16 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of pain was in the 14th century
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