paining
Making someone hurt
Paining is the present participle of pain, used when something causes physical or emotional hurt.
A paining tooth throbs persistently.
The construction it pains me expresses reluctant acknowledgment: It pains me to say this, but you're wrong.
In some dialects, paining describes ongoing discomfort: My back is paining me something awful.
Feeling pain or distress
- injuringCausing physical harm
- woundingCausing physical injury
- stingingCausing sharp pain
- irritatingCausing mild frustration
chafing · aggravating · inflaming · bruising · cutting · burning · tormenting · afflicting
Persistent dull discomfort
- throbBeat with intensity
- sorenessTender, painful sensation
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- stiffnessResistance to deformation
cramp · twinge · spasm · burning · stinging · smarting · throbbing · shooting
hurting
Feeling pain or distress
irritating · chafing · aggravating · inflaming · bruising · cutting · burning · tormenting · afflicting · distressing
ache
Persistent dull discomfort
- throbBeat with intensity
- sorenessTender, painful sensation
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
stiffness · cramp · twinge · spasm · burning · stinging · smarting · throbbing · shooting · stabbing
suffering
Sustained experience of distress
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- tribulationState of great distress
ordeal · trauma · agony · calamity · misfortune · trouble · tragedy · burden · torment · trial
anguish
Intense mental suffering
torment · distress · heartbreak · woe · misery · sadness · melancholy · dejection · despair · desolation
painingsoothing
Reducing distress or discomfort
relieving · easing · numbing · healing · comforting
painingcomforting
Giving emotional ease
cheering · gladdening · consoling · heartening · pleasing
pain, painful, pains, painless, pained, painfully, painkillers, painlessly, painlessness