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PAINED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed
Example:
injured feelings
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb pain
Context examples:
God knows I had no part in it while they remained there, but it pained me to think of the dear old place as altogether abandoned; of the weeds growing tall in the garden, and the fallen leaves lying thick and wet upon the paths.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I went below and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal and still bled freely, but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She thought he neither looked nor spoke cheerfully; and the first possible cause for it, suggested by her fears, was, that he had perhaps been communicating his plans to his brother, and was pained by the manner in which they had been received.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
With regard to Charles Hayter, she had delicacy which must be pained by any lightness of conduct in a well-meaning young woman, and a heart to sympathize in any of the sufferings it occasioned; but if Henrietta found herself mistaken in the nature of her feelings, the alteration could not be understood too soon.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
When he put up his arms, each day, to begin, they pained exquisitely, and the first few blows, struck and received, racked his soul; after that things grew numb, and he fought on blindly, seeing as in a dream, dancing and wavering, the large features and burning, animal-like eyes of Cheese-Face.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Marianne spoke inconsiderately what she really felt—but when she saw how much she had pained Edward, her own vexation at her want of thought could not be surpassed by his.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Friend John, it does rejoice me unspeakable that she is no more to be pained, no more to be worried with our terrible things.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I have been pained by her manner this morning, and cannot get the better of it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Catherine did not hear enough of this speech to understand or be pained by it; and other subjects being studiously brought forward and supported by Henry, at the same time that a tray full of refreshments was introduced by his servant, the general was shortly restored to his complacency, and Catherine to all her usual ease of spirits.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
His looks shewing him not pained, but pleased with this allusion to his situation, she was emboldened to go on; and feeling in herself the right of seniority of mind, she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularize, mentioned such works of our best moralists, such collections of the finest letters, such memoirs of characters of worth and suffering, as occurred to her at the moment as calculated to rouse and fortify the mind by the highest precepts, and the strongest examples of moral and religious endurances.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
