Pain

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
PN
Pronunciation
/peɪn/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. To help ease the pain, heat can be applied to the area with a hot water bottle
  2. This public acknowledgment of Ted's disability pained my mother
  3. Mobil is at pains to point out that the chances of an explosion at the site are remote.
  4. All Corfield got for his pains was a bullet in the head
  5. We were forbidden, under pain of imprisonment, to use our native language.

Other meanings of PN