States and conditions
Synonyms for pain
Synonyms for pain: hurting and bother. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for pain
Interchangeable with pain in this sense
Audited under pain's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one pain carries in that sense.
- hurtingnoun, in the sense "a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name pain as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- botherbother is a noun in the sense "something or someone that causes trouble"
The first group is filed under pain's own sense. The second reaches pain from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
The patient developed severe pain and distension.
The true synonym
hurting
Same sentence, swapped: The patient developed severe hurting and distension.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot pain is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- bother
- effect
- wasting
Where pain turns up in the game
pain is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play pain
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pain reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because states and conditions is the company pain keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. pain carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.