paining
- 1Present participle of pain.
The memory of that day was still paining him years later.
The long wait for news was paining the whole family.
Note
One spelling serves two jobs: the participle of progressive tenses (the news was paining her) and the gerund, a verbal noun (the paining of old wounds). In most English it is transitive, with the cause as subject and the sufferer as object. Indian English also uses it intransitively, with the sore part as subject (my back is paining), where other varieties would say hurting.
My knee has been paining since the fall.
Her head was paining all evening.
paining is a form of pain
pain, verb: To cause someone pain or distress, whether in body or mind; to hurt or grieve. Full entry
- Spelling
- pain → paining: add -ing
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