Word: painkilling
Part of speech: Adjective
Syllables: pain
kill
ing
Definition: Reducing or eliminating pain.
Morphemes:
Affix: pain
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: poena
Language: la
Decoded: poena
Meaning: punishment, pain
Affix: kill
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To produce intense pain.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form uncountable nouns from verbs denoting the act of doing something, an action.