pain vs plague

pain and plague both are nouns.

pain and plague both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pain	Yes	No	Yes	No
plague	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, plague is a hyponym of pain; that is, plague is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:

pain: something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
plague: an annoyance

Other hyponyms of pain include nuisance, irritant, thorn.

pain (noun)	plague (noun)
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort	an annoyance
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness	any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid	a swarm of insects that attack plants
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder	a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
	any epidemic disease with a high death rate

pain (verb)	plague (verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed	annoy continually or chronically
cause emotional anguish or make miserable	cause to suffer a blight

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