What's the difference between pain and punish?

Pain


Definition:

  • (n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
  • (n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
  • (n.) Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
  • (n.) Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
  • (n.) See Pains, labor, effort.
  • (n.) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  • (n.) To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
  • (n.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
  • (2) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
  • (3) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (4) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
  • (5) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
  • (6) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
  • (7) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
  • (8) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
  • (9) During the chronic phase, pain was assessed using visual analogue scales at 8 AM and 4 PM daily.
  • (10) Symptoms, particularly colicky abdominal pain, improved during the period of chelation therapy.
  • (11) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
  • (12) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
  • (13) The study revealed that hypophysectomy and ventricular injection of AVP dose dependently raised pain threshold and these effects were inhibited by naloxone.
  • (14) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
  • (15) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (16) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
  • (17) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
  • (18) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
  • (19) Our previous study demonstrated that acupuncture increased pain threshold of the body, especially in the inflammatory area.
  • (20) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.

Punish


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience.
  • (v. t.) To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death.
  • (v. t.) To injure, as by beating; to pommel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
  • (2) It’s not to punish the public, it’s to save the NHS and its people.” Another commenter added: “Of course they should strike.
  • (3) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
  • (4) Anwar, who was not Sanam's father, admitted to police after his arrest that he put the girl in the cupboard as punishment and said Navsarka punished her in the same way.
  • (5) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
  • (6) In many countries, male same-sex relationships are punishable by 10 years behind bars; in at least two, the penalty is death.
  • (7) There is a mutual interest in keeping prosperity that exists and has built over the years.” But Pisani-Ferry said Macron would certainly not seek to punish Britain.
  • (8) "We have Revolutionary Guards who defied orders, though they were severely punished, expelled from the force and taken to prison," he says.
  • (9) Initial acceleration of the DRL responding appeared to be due to adventitious punishment of collateral behavior which was observed between the bar-presses.
  • (10) As the last two people executed in Britain, the macabre anniversary of their deaths at Strangeways prison in Manchester and Walton prison in Liverpool is generating more publicity than their crime and punishment ever did at the time.
  • (11) These cases fall into two categories: situations where offspring are provided with opportunities to practice skills ("opportunity teaching"), and instances where the behavior of young is either encouraged or punished by adults ("coaching").
  • (12) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
  • (13) What punishment will Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain face?
  • (14) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
  • (15) If America can decide the punishment for Osama, why can't we decide that?"
  • (16) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
  • (17) We are determined to make sure governors have every power at their disposal to detect supply, punish those found using or dealing, and enforce a zero-tolerance approach.
  • (18) They ended up exceeding that margin comfortably, surging to a 14-0 lead inside the first 19 minutes and then withstanding the inevitable Samoan fightback, with the Wigan wing Pat Richards kicking four penalties to punish their growing indiscipline.
  • (19) Many Halifax and Bank of Scotland current account customers face a huge hike in overdraft charges, which will particularly punish those who regularly go into the red by a small amount, it emerged this week .
  • (20) Albion rarely threatened, though Tim Howard was alert to Shane Long's first-time shot, but had several chances to punish Everton on the counterattack late on.