{
    "term": "pain",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the feelings that you have in your body when you have been hurt or when you are ill",
            "sensetop": "in painpain in something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a cry of pain"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was clearly in a lot of pain.",
                    "contextForm": "in pain"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He screamed in pain as he fell to his knees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He felt a sharp pain in his knee.",
                    "contextForm": "pain in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "chronic/acute/severe pain"
                },
                {
                    "text": "patients suffering from back pain"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**stomach/chest/abdominal/back pains**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You get more **aches and pains** as you get older."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The booklet contains information on **pain relief** during labour."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This cream should help to **relieve the pain**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These pills should **ease the pain**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **feel/experience/suffer pain**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's wrong to **inflict pain** on any animal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was able to learn pain management techniques."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you feel any pain?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His face was contorted with pain as he crossed the finish line."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have a very low threshold for pain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If the pain persists, see your doctor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had a burning pain in one eye."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The pains began shortly after she started work as a gardener."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The treatments helped manage his pain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Your doctor should be able to do something for the pain."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Health problems"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["acute", "agonizing", "awful"],
                "… of pain": ["spasm", "stab"],
                "verb + pain": ["be in", "be racked with", "experience"],
                "pain + verb": ["begin", "come", "occur"],
                "pain + noun": ["control", "management", "relief"],
                "preposition": ["pain in"],
                "phrases": ["aches and pains", "a cry of pain", "a threshold for pain"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "mental or emotional difficulty",
            "sensetop": "the pain of somethingthe pain of doing something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the pain of separation",
                    "contextForm": "the pain of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It took him several years to get over the pain of losing his job.",
                    "contextForm": "the pain of doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I never meant to cause her pain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **pleasures and pains** of growing old"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a life full of **pain and suffering**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ellen saw the pain etched on his face when he mentioned his ex-wife's name."
                },
                {
                    "text": "For a few moments she forgot the pain he had caused her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I could sense her pain and put my arm around her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was lovely to have someone there to share both the pain and the joy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nothing could heal the pain of her son's death."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Through her drug addiction she had inflicted a lot of pain on the family."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We hoped to spare her the pain of having to meet her attacker."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government has to persuade the people that the economic reforms are worth the pain."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "immense", "intense"],
                "verb + pain": ["cause (somebody)", "give somebody", "inflict"],
                "phrases": ["the pain etched on somebody’s face"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a person or thing that is very annoying",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She can be a real pain when she's in a bad mood."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**It's a pain** having to go all that way for just one meeting."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that you need to suffer if you want to achieve something",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Difficulty and failure"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "with the threat of having something done to you as a punishment if you do not obey",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They were required to cut pollution levels, on pain of a £10 000 fine if they disobeyed."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person or thing that is very annoying",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "That man's a pain in the neck!"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/peɪn/",
                "audio": "pa/pain/pain__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/peɪn/",
                "audio": "pa/pain/pain__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘suffering inflicted as punishment for an offence’): from Old French peine, from Latin poena ‘penalty’, later ‘pain’."
}