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  • verb Present participle of pain.

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Examples

  • Now there was an event in the brain called "paining," parallel to the real sensation of pain, or "redding," experienced when looking at a red tomato.

    The Magical Mystery Show of Consciousness Matt Ridley 2011

  • And yet, dear friend, wait and look again: my pictorial representation of the arm is not a tattoo, but the most wonderfully worked oil paining, an oil paining on living skin, ageless and beautiful as God intended.

    Genre tattoo « Write Anything 2010

  • Make sure you see the Camara Obscura in the same room with Vermeer's paining of the Girl at the Piano.

    London 6 - An (Almost) Perfect Day in London aka TBTAM 2009

  • In the midst of pelting rain, which half-blinded him, swinging from side to side like a rapid and erratic pendulum, his torn hands paining him severely and his lungs panting from his exertions and panting from the very air which the wind sometimes blew into his mouth with strangling force, he finally arrived at the empty car.

    The Banks of the Sacramento 2010

  • His visor had shaded his eyes, and the winter sun had been at his back, paining her preternatural sight.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • His visor had shaded his eyes, and the winter sun had been at his back, paining her preternatural sight.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • My head is paining, interjected Ashish, not without cause.

    For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011

  • Dipping my head in grudging curtsy, the movement paining my purpling neck, I made swift passage to the galley along the narrow corridor to my right.

    The wrecking of the 'Tayleur' Gill Hoffs 2011

  • Lothaire the Enemy of Old woke strapped to a table in a blindingly white room, the bright artificial light paining his sensitive eyes.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • Lothaire the Enemy of Old woke strapped to a table in a blindingly white room, the bright artificial light paining his sensitive eyes.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

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