причиня́ть боль — meaning in English

English meaning

• afflict verb To cause someone pain or suffering.
• hurt verb To cause physical pain or injury.
• pain noun An unpleasant physical sensation caused by injury or illness.
• sting noun A sharp pain, or the puncture and injection of venom by an insect or animal.

Senses

причиня́ть боль is used for these senses in English:

• afflict (obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow; to result.
• hurt (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
• pain (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
• sting (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain (physically or emotionally).

afflict — full definition

1. verb To cause someone pain or suffering.
2. verb (archaic) To knock down or defeat someone.
3. verb (archaic) To humble someone.

hurt — full definition

1. verb To cause physical pain or injury.
2. verb To cause emotional pain or distress.
3. verb To damage or have a negative effect on something.
4. adj Injured, either physically or emotionally.
5. noun Physical injury or emotional pain.

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