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ach⋅ing

  [ey-king]
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–adjective
1. causing physical pain or distress: treatment for an aching back.
2. full of or precipitating nostalgia, grief, loneliness, etc.
Origin:
1200–1250; ME; see ache, -ing 2

Related forms:
ach⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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ache

  [eyk] verb, ached, ach⋅ing, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to have or suffer a continuous, dull pain: His whole body ached.
2. to feel great sympathy, pity, or the like: Her heart ached for the starving animals.
3. to feel eager; yearn; long: She ached to be the champion. He's just aching to get even.
–noun
4. a continuous, dull pain (in contrast to a sharp, sudden, or sporadic pain).
Origin:
bef. 900; (v.) ME aken, OE acan; perh. metaphoric use of earlier unattested sense “drive, impel” (cf. ON aka, c. L agere, Gk ágein); (n.) deriv. of the v.

Synonyms:
1. hurt. 4. See pain.
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ache   (āk)   
intr.v.   ached, ach·ing, aches

  1. To suffer a dull, sustained pain.

  2. To feel sympathy or compassion.

  3. To yearn painfully: refugees who ached for their homeland.

n.  

  1. A dull, steady pain. See Synonyms at pain.

  2. A longing or desire; a yen.

  3. A painful sorrow.


[Middle English aken, from Old English acan.]
ach·ing   (ā'kĭng)   
adj.  

  1. Dully painful.

  2. Full of painful yearning or sorrow: an aching heart.

ach'ing·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

ache  (v.)
O.E. acan "to ache, suffer pain," from P.Gmc. *akanan, perhaps from a PIE base *ag-es- "fault, guilt," represented also in Skt. and Gk., perhaps imitative of groaning. The noun is M.E. æche, from O.E. æce, from P.Gmc. *akiz. The verb was pronounced "ake," the noun "ache" (by i-mutation, as in speak-speech) but while the noun changed pronunciation to conform to the verb, the spelling of both was changed to ache c.1700 on a false assumption of a Gk. origin (Gk. akhos "pain, distress").
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: AChE
Function: abbreviation
acetylcholinesterase
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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ache (āk)
n.
A dull persistent pain. v. ached, ach·ing, aches
To suffer a dull, sustained pain.

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