PAIN (2)

pain (2). Pain, v.t. to make uneasy, afflict, torment, hurt

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Pain, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pained (pānd); p. pr. & vb. n. Paining.] [[OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See Pain, n.]] 1. 1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).
2. 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. 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. “She pained her to do all that she might.” Chaucer. Syn. — To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture.