dolor — meaning in English

English meaning

• grief noun Deep sorrow, especially caused by loss or bereavement.
• pain noun An unpleasant physical sensation caused by injury or illness.
• sorrow noun Deep sadness, especially over a loss.

Senses

dolor is used for these senses in English:

• dolour (chiefly, uncountable, literary) Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow.
• grief Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. [from early 14th c.]
• pain (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.
• sorrow (uncountable) unhappiness, woe
• sorrow (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.

grief — full definition

1. noun Deep sorrow, especially caused by loss or bereavement.
2. noun A source of trouble or annoyance (informal).

pain — full definition

1. noun An unpleasant physical sensation caused by injury or illness.
2. noun Mental or emotional suffering.
3. noun Informal term for an irritating or troublesome person or situation.
4. verb To cause someone physical or emotional suffering.

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