[ adj ] hurt or upset <adj.all> she looked offendedface had a pained and puzzled expression
Pain \Pain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pained} (p[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Paining}.] [OE. peinen, OF. pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See {Pain}, n.] 1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).
2. 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.
Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. --Locke .
3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents.
I am pained at my very heart. --Jer. iv. 19.
{To pain one's self}, to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] ``She pained her to do all that she might.'' --Chaucer.
My father is very troubled about it." She is speaking Russian, too, and her father looks pained.
His remarks were carried by the official Iraqi media and translated by The Associated Press: Ladies and gentlemen; dear children: I know that you are pained because your relatives are not allowed to leave Iraq.
People who cough now will get something more than pained stares from their fellow concertgoers: the Sydney Opera House is giving away four-packs of lozenges in an effort to quiet noisemakers.
Economists were relieved to see output climbing; jobless workers were pained to see little improvement in the unemployment rate, which tends to drop slowly.
While it may have pained black South Africans to spurn a woman they had once admired, they correctly saw that their cause was too precious to risk for anyone's personal ambition.
He said it pained him to see how rare books and art treasures that were spirited away by residents of Leningrad to protect them from Nazis who occupied the city in World War II had been destroyed through negligence.
By the dozens, employees who hours earlier were told they were fired were emerging from its doors in the heart of the financial district with pained expressions.
Whether it expected that or not, the industry clearly is pained by the Navy's new competitiveness.
In a letter sent to former clasmates last summer, Casolo recalled "how ashamed I was of being poor in high school" and how pained she was by the memory of demanding that her mother buy her expensive blue jeans like those her friends wore.
ROGER Joslin, treasurer of the giant State Farm Insurance Company, looks pained.
The U.N. observers' base camp, which comprises neat rows of portable cabins pained white, is about 25 miles south of Ahvaz, capital of Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan province and one of the most heavily damaged regions during the war.
"You can never make some people happy," complains grandmotherly Josefina Rangel, her face assuming the kind of pained expression that might be directed at a dinner guest who didn't clean his plate.
"He always looks slightly pained, as if he's been hit with an electric cattle prod," says Jack Ohman, of the Portland Oregonian.
She also admitted she was "pained" by the estrangement.
Usually, the question was greeted by a pained silence.
"I am terribly pained and distracted by the chaos and misery of my homeland - the result of 73 years of Communist dictatorship," Kasparov, 27, said Sunday.
The Independent's boss Andreas Whittam Smith is a trifle pained by the knocking copy, but the Telegraph says it is just in fun. Will it work?