Tra từ spain - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

1 feeling pain
2 showing pain
3 reducing pain
4 wanting to cause pain
see also ILLNESS, SUFFER

1 feeling pain
- the unpleasant feeling that you have when part of your body has been hurt or when you are ill: pain (noun C/U)
I've got a dreadful pain in my back. ◎ Is she in pain?
- to cause pain: hurt* (sb/sth)
My toe hurts. ◎ Stop it. You're hurting me! ◎ It hurts a lot just above the knee.
- to cause a sharp pain: sting* (sth)
Soap stings your eyes. ◎ This ointment will sting a bit.
- a pain which is not sharp but which lasts a long time: ache; verb: ache
the aches and pains of old age ◎ My leg has been aching all day.
- a pain which lasts a short time only: attack
a sudden attack of toothache
- something which causes pain is painful; opposite: painless
a painful illness ◎ a painless operation
- to experience pain: suffer (from sth); noun (U): suffering
Jane suffers from severe headaches. ◎ The famine caused great hardship and suffering.
- to live with pain: put* up with sth, bear* sth, (formal) endure sth
He had to put up with a great deal of pain. ◎ The pain was almost more than he could bear.
- a part of your body which feels painful is sore; noun (U): soreness
I've got a sore throat. ◎ My finger still feels sore.
- a part of your body which is painful when you touch it is tender
Don't touch my arm. It's still tender from the injection.
- pain which is not very bad: discomfort
She felt a mild discomfort in her stomach.
- to cause slight pain or soreness: irritate sb/sth, bother sb
Very bright sunlight irritates her eyes. ◎ 'Does your tooth still hurt?' 'A bit, but it's not bothering me as much as it did.'
- very bad pain: agony (noun U)
After breaking my arm, I was in absolute agony.
- a pain that is very strong is acute, agonizing, bad
- a very strong and sudden pain is sharp; opposite: dull
a sharp pain ◎ a dull ache
※ pain in different parts of the body
- in the head: headache
I've got a terrible headache.
- in the throat: sore throat
Have you got a sore throat?
- in the ear: earache (noun U)
I've got earache.
- in a tooth: toothache (noun C/U)
- in the back: backache (noun C/U), back pain (noun C/U)
- in the stomach: stomach-ache (noun C/U), (more informal) tummy-ache
- a very bad headache that makes you feel ill: migraine (noun C/U)
to have a bad migraine ◎ to suffer from migraine
- a sudden pain that you get in the side of your body, for example after running: stitch
- a sudden pain that is the result of an insect or plant pushing sth sharp into the skin: sting
Note: in British English we always say a headache, but the other aches are normally used without an article:
I've got toothache. In American English, a or an is usually used with aches:
I have a toothache.

2 showing pain
※ movements
- if your body is bent as a result of bad pain, you are doubled up in/with pain
- to make a sudden quick movement of your face as a result of pain: wince
He winced when the nurse gave him the injection.
※ sounds
- to shout or make a loud noise: cry (out); noun: cry
She cried out in pain. ◎ a terrible cry of pain
- a loud and sharp cry: yell, shriek; verbs: yell, shriek
a yell of pain ◎ He gave a sudden shriek.
- a loud long cry: howl; verb: howl
He let out a long howl of pain. ◎ One of the victims was howling with pain.
- a loud high cry: scream; verb: scream
She started screaming even before the dentist had touched her!
- a deep cry: groan; verb: groan
He gave an awful groan.
- a low sad cry: moan; verb: moan
The child was moaning quietly to herself.
- to express a sudden sharp pain, you can say ow!ouch!
Ow! I've pricked my finger.

3 reducing pain
- to stop or reduce pain: relieve sth; noun (U): relief
I couldn't get any relief from the pain in my back.
- to make pain less severe: soothe sth
a lotion which soothes sunburn
- a medicine that is used for reducing or stopping pain: painkiller
to take a couple of painkillers
- a substance that stops you feeling pain when a doctor is performing an operation on you: anaesthetic (AmE anesthetic)(noun C/U)

4 wanting to cause pain
- to cause pain to sb/sth badly or repeatedly: torment sb/sth
Stop tormenting that poor dog!
- deliberately causing physical or mental pain to sb: cruel (adverb cruelly); noun (U): cruelty
- the act of causing very great pain to a person as a punishment or to get information out of them: torture (noun C/U); verb: torture sb
※ being cruel KIND/CRUEL