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What is the verb for pain?

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pain
  1. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
  2. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “I am unable to play tennis because my injured elbow still continues to pain me.”
      “The traumatic experience would pain her for several years to come.”
pained
pains
paineth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of pain
painest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of pain
paining
  1. present participle of pain
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He looked fine, but it was obvious that he was wincing as he walked and that his right leg was paining him.”
      “You spend the whole year visiting universities, filling out applications and paining over Ucas to then sort it in a day over the phone.”
      “You can indicate the name of the preferred paining in the message box, or simply place a new order.”
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