Usually means: Experiencing discomfort or suffering physically.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. paining: Merriam-Webster
  2. paining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. paining: Vocabulary.com
  4. paining: Wordnik
  5. paining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. paining: Wiktionary
  7. Paining, paining: Dictionary.com
  8. paining: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Paining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Paining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. paining: FreeDictionary.org
  12. paining: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. paining: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paining: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. paining: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. paining: Medical dictionary

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  1. paining: Idioms

(Note: See pain as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (PAIN)

noun:  (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
noun:  (now usually in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
noun:  (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
noun:  (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
noun:  (uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
verb:  (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
verb:  (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
verb:  (intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.
noun:  (obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Acronym of pan-assay interference compound. [Any compound that produces a false positive in many biochemical assays]
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