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{
"term": "pain",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the feelings that you have in your body when you have been hurt or when you are ill",
"sensetop": "in painpain in something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a cry of pain"
},
{
"text": "She was clearly in a lot of pain.",
"contextForm": "in pain"
},
{
"text": "He screamed in pain as he fell to his knees."
},
{
"text": "He felt a sharp pain in his knee.",
"contextForm": "pain in something"
},
{
"text": "chronic/acute/severe pain"
},
{
"text": "patients suffering from back pain"
},
{
"text": "**stomach/chest/abdominal/back pains**"
},
{
"text": "You get more **aches and pains** as you get older."
},
{
"text": "The booklet contains information on **pain relief** during labour."
},
{
"text": "This cream should help to **relieve the pain**."
},
{
"text": "These pills should **ease the pain**."
},
{
"text": "to **feel/experience/suffer pain**"
},
{
"text": "It's wrong to **inflict pain** on any animal."
},
{
"text": "I was able to learn pain management techniques."
},
{
"text": "Can you feel any pain?"
},
{
"text": "His face was contorted with pain as he crossed the finish line."
},
{
"text": "I have a very low threshold for pain."
},
{
"text": "If the pain persists, see your doctor."
},
{
"text": "She had a burning pain in one eye."
},
{
"text": "The pains began shortly after she started work as a gardener."
},
{
"text": "The treatments helped manage his pain."
},
{
"text": "Your doctor should be able to do something for the pain."
}
],
"topics": ["Health problems"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["acute", "agonizing", "awful"],
"… of pain": ["spasm", "stab"],
"verb + pain": ["be in", "be racked with", "experience"],
"pain + verb": ["begin", "come", "occur"],
"pain + noun": ["control", "management", "relief"],
"preposition": ["pain in"],
"phrases": ["aches and pains", "a cry of pain", "a threshold for pain"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "mental or emotional difficulty",
"sensetop": "the pain of somethingthe pain of doing something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "the pain of separation",
"contextForm": "the pain of something"
},
{
"text": "It took him several years to get over the pain of losing his job.",
"contextForm": "the pain of doing something"
},
{
"text": "I never meant to cause her pain."
},
{
"text": "the **pleasures and pains** of growing old"
},
{
"text": "a life full of **pain and suffering**"
},
{
"text": "Ellen saw the pain etched on his face when he mentioned his ex-wife's name."
},
{
"text": "For a few moments she forgot the pain he had caused her."
},
{
"text": "I could sense her pain and put my arm around her."
},
{
"text": "It was lovely to have someone there to share both the pain and the joy."
},
{
"text": "Nothing could heal the pain of her son's death."
},
{
"text": "Through her drug addiction she had inflicted a lot of pain on the family."
},
{
"text": "We hoped to spare her the pain of having to meet her attacker."
},
{
"text": "The government has to persuade the people that the economic reforms are worth the pain."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["great", "immense", "intense"],
"verb + pain": ["cause (somebody)", "give somebody", "inflict"],
"phrases": ["the pain etched on somebody’s face"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a person or thing that is very annoying",
"labels": "(informal)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She can be a real pain when she's in a bad mood."
},
{
"text": "**It's a pain** having to go all that way for just one meeting."
}
],
"topics": ["Personal qualities"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that you need to suffer if you want to achieve something",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Difficulty and failure"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "with the threat of having something done to you as a punishment if you do not obey",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They were required to cut pollution levels, on pain of a £10 000 fine if they disobeyed."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a person or thing that is very annoying",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "That man's a pain in the neck!"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/peɪn/",
"audio": "pa/pain/pain__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/peɪn/",
"audio": "pa/pain/pain__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘suffering inflicted as punishment for an offence’): from Old French peine, from Latin poena ‘penalty’, later ‘pain’."
}