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. Lock
3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents. I am pained at mJer. 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.
PAINABLE
Pain"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. pénible.]
Defn: Causing pain; painful. [Obs.] The manacles of Astyages were not . . . the less weighty and painable for being composed of gold or silver. Evelyn.
PAINFUL
Pain"ful, a.
1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison.
2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] Fuller. A very painful person, and a great clerk. Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. Dryden.
Syn.
— Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous;
laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous.
— Pain"ful*ly, adv.
— Pain"ful*ness, n.