The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word PAIN
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What does PAIN mean?
PAIN noun- An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
- The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
- (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
- Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
- (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
- To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
- To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
- To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
- Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.