Definition of paining:
(n) :
(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.
(n) :
(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
(n) :
(countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
(v) :
(transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
(v) :
(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
(n) :
(now usually in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.