Pain

/peɪn/ noun

Pain is an unpleasant feeling in your body or mind that warns you something may be wrong or that you are hurt.

From Old French *peine* and Latin *poena* meaning “punishment, penalty,” originally linked to legal or religious suffering. Over time it broadened to any kind of physical or emotional hurt.

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