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Word entry · 7 letters

painful

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"Hurting"

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈpeɪn.fl̩/Part of speech adjectiveSorted afilnpuStarts with PEnds with L1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (PAINFUL).

Definitions

  1. causing physical discomfort

Word origin

From Middle English paynful, peinful, peynful, paynefull, peynefull, equivalent to pain + -ful. Compare Danish pinefuld (“painful”).

Used in a sentence

  • In a 2008 case report from India, doctors described removing a giant tonsillolith that was making it painful for a young patient to swallow.
  • A rackingly painful disease that affects the joints and finally cripples, it is caused by an imbalance of uric acid in the system.
  • The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle.

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