Pain
Pain verb - To feel or cause physical pain.
Relieve
Relieve verb - To make more bearable or less severe.
Common collocations
| moment | pain moment | relieve moment |
Both words in one sentence
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He used to take pain medication to relieve his back pain and ignore it to film, but eventually had to have back surgery.
Source: Series / Running Man -
It's been mentioned that he's now on medication to reduce this pain, so any time he feels he needs to relieve his suffering is psychosomatic.
Source: Touch of Death - She'll never attempt to relieve the emotional pain herself — other characters do all the legwork for her.
Source: Sympathetic Sue
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