verb
- third-person singular present tense of 'pein': to cause pain or suffering to; to torture or torment
Usage: archaic; literary
Examples
- The memory of his failure peins him still.
- What peins the heart most is the loss of hope.
- The wound peins her whenever she moves.
- Old regrets pein the conscience of the guilty.
- Nothing peins a parent more than a child's suffering.