Reverse Dictionary: PAIN

ADJECTIVES
– AFFLICTIVE tending to inflict continued pain or distress; distressing, painful … 1576
– AGUEFIED pained, stiff, store, as with ague …1939 Amer. dial.
– ANGUISHOUS painful, causing pain .B1900 Eng. dial.
– BAD ill, sick, in pain; injured …1716 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
– BALEFUL † full of pain or suffering; painful …c1200
– BEADLESS of persons: intolerant of suffering; impatient of pain …1885 Eng. dial.
– DAGGING of pain: shooting…1790 Eng. dial.
– DELENIFICAL †* soothing, pacifying, mitigating; making gentle; assuaging pain …1656
– DERF † painful, grievous; terrible, dreadful, cruel …a1225
– EASY free from pain, discomfort, or stiffness; supple …1883 Sc. & Amer. dial.
– ELDRITCH of a sore or wound: painful, fretted …19C Sc.
– FUNKED-UP hurt, painful …2000s US sl.
– FURIOUS † of pain, disease: raging, cruel …c1405
– GRINDING of pain: excruciating, wearing …L16
– GYPPY painful; annoying …2000 UK sl.
– HARROWING acutely distressing or painful …1810
– JOINT-SICK † suffering from pain in the joints; diseased in the joints …a1618
– JUMPING of pain: throbbing … 1884 Amer. dial.
– LABORIFEROUS †* that takes pains; that endures labour, painful, difficult …1656
– LANCINATING chiefly used of pain: acute, darting, piercing …1762
– MISCHIEVOUS hurtful, painful …1812 Sc.  
– MISERISH aching; painful …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NAGGY aching with a dull pain …Bk1903 Eng. dial.
– OOLIN of pain: troublesome, gnawing …1913 Sc.
– PAINABLE †* painful …1649
– PAINOUS †* painful; severe …c1400
– PAINSFUL painful …1882 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– QUICKIE of a part of the body: experienced sharp pain or extreme sensitivity …1984 Amer. dial.
– RACKING torturing causing intense pain, physical or mental …1667
– RAMPANT extremely painful, agonizing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAPID violent; severe; esp. used of pain …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAXING of pain: racking …B1900 Eng. dial.
– SAIR causing physical pain or distress; sore …1808 Sc.
– SALT severe, painful …1895 Sc.
– SMART of a blow, stroke, etc.: sufficiently hard or severe to cause pain; sharp, stinging a1200
– SMARTFUL † painful; distressing …1556
– SMARTLESS free from pain or irritation … 1593 rare
– SORE AS A BOIL, AS very painful, sore …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SUGHEND † distressing, painful …a1225
– SWINKFUL full of toil or trouble; painful, distressing … a1000 obs.
– TANGING of a pain, etc.: shooting …1864 Eng. dial.
– TART † of pain, punishment, suffering, discipline, law: sharp, severe, painful, grievous, tender to the touch, smarting, stinging …c1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TIDDEN tender; painful, hard to put up with …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TOUCHOUS physically sensitive; tender, painful to the touch …1894 Amer. dial.
– TWINGY experiencing twinges of pain … 1865 rare
– VERBEROUS † smarting with pain …1688

ADVERBS
– DINGEELY painfully as a result of bouncing …1704 US

INTERJECTIONS
– CUSSADANG! an exclamation caused by sudden pain … 1966 Amer. dial.
– DAG-GUM IT! an exclamation caused by sudden pain …1965 Amer. dial.
– HOOEE! used to attract attention or to express surprise, joy, pain, etc. …1874 Amer. dial.
– HOO-EE-AH! used to attract attention or to express surprise, joy, pain, etc. …1874 Amer. dial.
– HOO-HEE! used to attract attention or to express surprise, joy, pain, etc. …1965 Amer. dial.
– HOO-WEE! used to attract attention or to express surprise, joy, pain, etc. …1882 Amer. dial.
– MAN, THAT’S A LICK! said of a sudden pain caused by a hard blow on the chest …1965 Amer. dial.
– MOP AND BUCKET! an exclamation of annoyance or pain …20C rhyming sl. for ‘fuck it’
– OHWEE! used to express surprise, joy, pain, etc. …1961 Amer. dial.
– OOEY! used to express surprise, joy, pain, etc. …1961 Amer. dial.
– OO-WEE! used to express surprise, joy, pain, etc. …1961 Amer. dial.
– SILLY-GRIN! an ironical exclamation imparting pain or misfortune …1910s Aust. sl.
– UFF-DA! an expression of surprise, aversion, disgust, or pain …1950 Amer. dial.
– WHOO! used to attract attention or to express surprise, joy, pain, etc. …1932 Amer. dial.
– WHOOEE! used to attract attention or to express surprise, joy, pain, etc. …1888 Amer. dial.
– WHOO-HEE! used to attract attention or to express surprise, joy, pain, etc. …1965 Amer. dial.
– WHOOIE! used to attract attention or to express surprise, joy, pain, etc. …1924 Amer. dial.

NOUNS
– AFTER-STANG an acute pang or pain … 1897 Eng. dial.
– ALGOPHILIA a love of pain … Bk1991
– ALGOPHOBIA an extreme fear of pain … Bk1991
– ANGUISH pain felt at a distance from the actual wound or seat of disease, commonly known as ‘sympathy’ …B1900 Eng. dial.
– BALE † physical suffering, torment, pain, woe …c1250
– BARRAT † trouble, distress, sorrow, grief, pain …c1230
– BEDOLING-PAIN a dull, continuous pain …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BIDE pain, suffering …Bk1911 Sc. 
– CATCH a sudden, sharp pain in the back, side, or neck; a stitch ..1895 Sc.
– CATCH-PAIN a sharp, sudden pain, usually in the side …1965 Amer. dial.
– CHARLEY any minor stiffness or pain of the joints or muscles; a Charley horse …20C Amer. sl.
– CRANK a pain that strikes you suddenly in the neck … 1966 Amer. dial.
– CRICKLE a muscular ache or pain; a feeling of stiffness in the muscles … 1680 obs. rare
– CRICKLING a muscular ache or pain; a feeling of stiffness in the muscles … a1644 obs. rare
– CRIMP a sudden sharp pain or cramp … 1966 Amer. dial.
– CRINGE a sudden sharp pain, a cramp … 1969 Amer. dial.
– CRINK a sudden sharp pain, a cramp … 1965 Amer. dial.
– CRINKS AND CRANKS twisting or contorting of the body, induced by pain; aches and pains … 1865 Eng. dial.
– CROOK a sudden sharp pain, a cramp … 1965 Amer. dial.
– CRUCIFIXION torture, severe pain or anguish … 1648 obs.
– CUE a sharp, sudden pain … 1968 Amer. dial.
– DAG a sharp, sudden pain …1790 Eng. dial.
– DARE harm, pain …1691 Eng. dial.
– DART a pain that strikes you suddenly in the neck …1966 Amer. dial.
– DIRLING a smarting pain of short duration …1835 Sc.
– EHA pain; a sore …1938 Hawaii 
– FAKEMENT pain, uneasiness, distress …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GIP pain, actual or figurative …1910 UK sl.
– GRIP a sudden pain that comes in the side …1967 Amer. dial.
– GYP pain, actual or figurative …1910 UK sl.
– HARM † grief, sorrow, pain, trouble, distress, affliction …a1000
– HEART-GUN a severe internal pain; colic …1746 Eng. dial. 
– HECKS pain suffered through fear or passion … Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– ILL illness, pain; disease; difficulty …1813 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– INCOME an illness or infirmity not due to any apparent external cause; often applied to a swelling, abscess, boil, or other festering sore; a sharp attack of pain, a stitch in the side …1808 Sc. 
– IRK weariness; pain …1796 Sc.
– JYP pain, actual or figurative …1910 UK sl.
– KENNINGTON LANE pain …20C rhyming sl.
– LANCINATION piercing pain; acute agony …1649
– LEVATION † an easing or diminishing of grief or pain …1656
– MARTYRDOM torment, torture; extreme pain or suffering …c1386
– MARTYRE † torment, torture; extreme pain or suffering …c1330
– MEANING an indication of pain or lameness …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MERRY HELL severe pain …1963 sl.
– MICHAEL CAINE a pain …1960s rhyming sl.
– MISERY an ache or pain …1827 Amer. dial.
– MISERY, THE an ache or pain …1832 Amer. dial.
– MULLIGRUBS pain in the stomach or intestines; diarrhoea …1806 Amer. dial.
– NADIUM a gnawing pain …1824 Sc. 
– NAG a gnawing; a pang of pain; wearing, laborious toil …1949 Sc.
– NAIL a sharp pain in the forehead …1825 Sc.
– NEDEUM a gnawing pain …1824 Sc.
– NILD an aching, continuous pain, as of toothache …1908 Sc. 
– ODYNOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of pain … Bk1991
– OFFENCE † feeling of being hurt; painful or unpleasant sensation, pain …c1400
– ONTACK an attack or onset of pain, of snow, bad weather, or the like …1964 Sc.
– OWIE a hurt, pain; a bruise or minor injury …1967 Amer. dial.
– PAINING * the act of causing or condition of feeling pain; pain, suffering …c1440
– PAINLINESS †* the condition of being in pain; distressful state …1435
– PANNEL a pain, hurt …1889 Eng. dial.
– PANTOD a vague or undefined illness; an imaginary illness; a fit; a violent pain …1901 Amer. dial.
– QUICK a sudden, sharp pain; a crick in the neck …1965 Amer. dial.
– QUIRK 1. a deep breath drawn when in pain …1847 Eng. dial.
2. a sudden, sharp pain …1966 Amer. dial.
– RACK that which causes acute suffering, physical or mental; also, the result produced by this; intense pain or suffering …1591
– RACKING intense pain …1896
– RAGE †* violent pain; hence, humorously suggested as a name for a set of teeth …1486
– RANGLE a wound, fester; a wearisome, rankling pain …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RASH a sudden twinge of pain …1900 Sc.
– RAXER something that pains …B1900 Eng. dial.
– SADDAM HUSSEIN a pain; an irritation; an annoying person …1998 UK rhyming sl.
– SCRITCH a pain that strikes you suddenly in the neck …1969 Amer. dial.
– SHOOT a sharp short twinge of pain …1756
– SHOWER an attack of physical or emotional suffering; a bout of illness; a spasm of pain …a1300 Sc.
– SMART sharp physical pain, esp. such as is caused by a blow, sting, etc., or by a wound … a1225
– SMARTNESS pain, smarting; irritation … c1425 rare
– SMATCH a slight touch of illness, pain, etc. … 1647
– STOUN, STOUND a sudden fit of pain; a numbing pain caused by a blow …Bk1868 Eng. dial.
– TAKING † a seizure or attack of disease; a stroke or palsy or the like; an attack of illness; a sudden seizure of pain; a sore, a swelling also, enchantment …1533 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TANG a sting; an acute pain …1781 Eng. dial.
– TART a sharp pain …1881 Eng. dial.
– THEIVIL-PAIN a pain in the side …Bk1905 Sc.
– THEIVIL-SHOT a pain in the side …Bk1905 Sc.
– TORMENT † a griping or wringing pain in the bowels …1578
– TORMENTRY * tormenting feeling; severe suffering, pain, or vexation …c1386
– TRAVELING PAINS pains, such as toothache, which cause a person to walk the floor …1918 Amer. dial.
– TWITCH a sudden sharp feeling of physical or mental pain or discomfort; a twinge, a pang  … 1510
– TWITCHER a heavy blow; a sharp or sudden pain … 1771 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– VERBERATION † a smarting pain, as when beaten with rods, whips, or scourges …1688
– WARCH † a pain, an ache …c900 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– WARK † a pain, an ache …c900 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– BAPTISM OF FIRE the undergoing of any severe ordeal or painful experience …1857
– SORE CUP OF TEA something sad, painful, or disgusting …1889 Eng. dial.
– LABORIOSITY * painfulness, laboriousness …1656

VERBS
– ACORE † to taste, to feel the smart of, to suffer pain …c1200
– BEIL to give pain or trouble to …Bk1911 Sc.
– CATCH of a muscle or joint: to experience sudden sharp pain …1968 Amer. dial.
– CRIMP to double up in pain; to cramp … 1927 Amer. dial.
– CRUCIATE to afflict with grievous pain or distress; to torture, to torment … 1532 arch.
– DAG to dart or shoot, as a sudden pain …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DANGLE to shoot or quiver with pain …Bk1900 Sc.
– DARE to pain, to grieve, to hurt …1684 Eng. dial.
– DENGLE to swing, to vibrate, to quiver, to throb, to tingle; to shoot or quiver with pain …B1900 Sc.
– DERE to pain, to grieve, to hurt …1684 Eng. dial.
– DILL to soothe; to allay, to assuage, to deaden or take away pain; to still, to deaden sound; to lull a child to sleep; to render insensible by an anaesthetic …1775 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DIRR to deaden or alleviate pain, as by the use of laudanum …Bk1900 Sc.
– FAKE to hurt, to cause intense pain to …1812 Eng. dial.
– FAKE UP to hurt, to cause intense pain to …1812 Eng. dial.
– GEAL to tingle with intense pain; also, to ache or tingle with cold …a1600 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– GELL to tingle with intense pain; also, to ache or tingle with cold …a1600 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– GET THE MISERIES to be in pain; to be ill … 1990s African-American sl.
– GIVE A PERSON GYP to hurt a person, to cause pain for; hence, to cause trouble for, to irritate or distress …1894
– JAG to vex, to irritate, to annoy, to trouble; to pain, to rankle …1888 Eng. dial.
– KILL to cause pain to someone ….1800 UK sl.
– LANCE † of pain: to shoot …a1300
– LAP to throb, as in pain … Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LASK † to lower in quality, quantity, or strength, to relax; to shorten life; to alleviate pain …c1350
– MARTYR to inflict grievous suffering or pain upon; to torment, to torture …c1240
– NAG to keep up a dull gnawing pain; to ache persistently …1836
– NAGGLE to fret continually; to pain continuously …1885 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– NANG of a pain: to gnaw; to keep up a dull, continuous aching …1882 Eng. dial.
– NATTER to gnaw, to nag, as pain …1871 Eng. dial.
– NEDEUM of pain: to gnaw …Bk1905 Sc.
– NULL to abate; to alleviate pain …1984 Amer. dial.
– OFFEND † to strike so as to hurt; to wound, to hurt; to give physical pain to; to harm, to injure …c1385
– OUCH to hurt, to cause pain to …1952 Amer. dial.
– PANG * to pierce or penetrate with acute physical or mental pain; to pain, to hurt, to ache …c1502
– PANNEL to pain, to hurt …1889 Eng. dial.
– POP ONE’S CAP to feel depressed; to suffer pain …1950s US Black sl. sl.
– PUT THE HURT ON to inflict pain …2001 UK sl.
– QUETCH † to shrink, to wince, to twitch with pain, and usually in negative clauses …c1205 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– QUITCH † to shrink, to wince, to twitch with pain, and usually in negative clauses …c1205 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RACK to inflict mental pain or torture on a person; to torture, to distract the mind, soul, etc. …1601
– RAMP of pain: to rage …1827 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RAMP AND ROVE to be in a state of almost unbearable pain …Bk1905 Sc.
– RASH to twinge with sudden pain …B1900 Sc.
– RENZIE to writhe with pain …Bk1904 Sc.
– SING to cry out with pain; to make a noise, to boast, about something …c1386
– SUFFER † to inflict pain upon …c1500 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SWINK to suffer physical or mental pain … a1000 obs.
– TAKE ON to ache, to be painful …1893 Eng. dial. ​
– THRAW to suffer pain …1805 Sc.
– TIFT to beat like a pulse; to throb; to tingle with pain …1899 Sc.
– TOLERATE † to endure, to sustain pain or hardship …1531 
– TWANGLE to writhe from pain …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TWITCH to suffer asudden, sharp pain; to twinge … 1827 obs. rare
– URN † to pain, to torture …Bk1905 Sc.
– VICE to do harm, to cheat, to steal, to cause physical pain …1950s US Black sl.
– WARCH † to ache, to suffer pain; to throb painfully …a1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– WARK † to ache, to suffer pain; to throb painfully …a1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.