grief vs pain

grief

noun
  • Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial. 

  • Suffering, hardship. 

  • Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. 

verb
  • To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game. 

pain

noun
  • The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress 

  • 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. 

  • An annoying person or thing. 

  • Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something. 

verb
  • To feel pain; to hurt. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words grief and pain occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )