Collocations for pain - noun

acute, agonizing, awful, blinding, excruciating, extreme, great, immense, intense, severe, terrible, unbearable, unimaginable
aching, burning, cramping, numbing, piercing, searing, sharp, shooting, stabbing, stinging, throbbing
She had a burning pain in one eye.

dull, little, mild, slight
debilitating
chronic, constant, nagging, persistent
sudden
intermittent
recurrent
bodily, physical
abdominal, back, chest, joint, leg, muscle, pelvic, shoulder, stomach
She's been in bed with back pain.
He went to the doctor with chest pains.

menstrual, period (esp. BrE)
arthritis
labor pain (AmE), labour/labor pains (BrE, AmE)
growing pains
phantom
the phantom pain of a lost limb

spasm, stab

be in, be racked with, experience, feel, get, go through, have, suffer, suffer from
He was obviously in a great deal of pain.
Can you feel any pain?
Marathon runners are used to going through pain.
He was taken to the hospital suffering from severe abdominal pain.

cause, give sb, inflict
His back gives him a lot of pain.
It's wrong to inflict pain on any animal.

aggravate, exacerbate, increase, make worse
alleviate, block out, deaden, dull, ease, help, kill, lessen, numb, reduce, relieve, soothe, stop
These pills should ease the pain.

control, manage
The treatments helped manage his pain.

minimize
treat
Doctors used to treat back pain with rest.

bear, endure, put up with, stand, take, withstand
ignore
cry out in, cry with, groan with, scream with
be contorted with, contort in
His face was contorted with pain as he crossed the finish line.

begin, come, occur, start
The pains began shortly after she started work as a gardener.

erupt, flare, flare up
hit sb/sth, strike sb/sth
A sharp pain hit the middle of my chest and I collapsed.

course through sb/sth, flash through sth, flood sth, lance through sb/sth (literary, esp. AmE), radiate from sth to sth, rip through sb/sth, rush through sb/sth, rush up sb/sth, sear through sb/sth, shoot through sth, shoot up sth, stab sb/sth, surge through sb/sth, sweep over sb/sth, sweep through sb/sth, tear through sb/sth, throb, wash over sb
A sharp pain shot up his leg.

overwhelm sb, wrack sb/sth
Pain wracked her frail body once more.

grow stronger, increase, intensify, worsen
disappear, ease, fade, go, recede, stop, subside
Has the pain gone yet?

persist
If the pain persists, see your doctor.

come back, return

control, management, relief
killer (usually painkiller), medication, medicine, pill (esp. AmE), reliever
sufferer
symptoms
specialist
clinic
threshold, tolerance
level
intensity, severity
sensation

pain in
a pain in her side

aches and pains
Eucalyptus oil is good for easing muscular aches and pains.

a cry of pain
a threshold for pain (esp. AmE), a threshold of pain
I have a very low threshold for pain.

great, immense, intense, terrible
numbing
indescribable, unspeakable
emotional

cause (sb), give sb, inflict
Through her drug addiction she had inflicted a lot of pain on the family.

feel, go through
know
She knew the pain of separation.

get over
It took him several years to get over the pain of losing his job.

dull, ease, lessen, numb
heal
Nothing could heal the pain of her son's death.

spare sb
We hoped to spare her the pain of having to meet her attacker.

express
share
It was lovely to have someone there to share both the pain and the joy.

conceal, hide, mask
He tried to conceal his pain from her.

forget
For a few moments she forgot the pain he had caused her.

bear, endure, withstand
relive
I don't want to relive the pain of losing her.

sense
I could sense her pain and put my arm around her.

prolong

the pain etched on sb's face
Ellen saw the pain etched on his face when he mentioned his ex-wife's name.