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verb (used without object)

to have or suffer a continuous, dull pain: His whole body ached.

to feel great sympathy, pity, or the like: Her heart ached for the starving animals.

to feel eager; yearn; long: She ached to be the champion. He's just aching to get even.

noun

a continuous, dull pain (in contrast to a sharp, sudden, or sporadic pain).

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Origin:
before 900; (v.) Middle English aken, Old English acan; perhaps metaphoric use of earlier unattested sense “drive, impel” (compare Old Norse aka, cognate with Latin agere, Greek ágein); (noun) derivative of the v.

Synonyms
1. hurt. 4. See pain.

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Example Sentences

The gnawing ache sent him to the mirror to look for a possible source.

Anyone who has been on the market knows the ache of constant rejection.

Midway through the fourth round my lungs begin to ache.

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The gnawing ache sent him to the mirror to look for a possible source.

Anyone who has been on the market knows the ache of constant rejection.

Midway through the fourth round my lungs begin to ache.

Aging is not for the squeamish: skin sags, joints ache and hearing might start to go.

What a dreary bunch of naysayersthis column has given me a stomach ache.

Established truths are comforting, but it is the mysteries that make the soul ache and render a life of exploration worth living.

Parts of your body ache that you don't even know the names of, and your eyes forget how to focus.

Will all the loss of money at stake due to budget cuts, this makes my stomach ache.

I've developed a persistent cough by now and my lungs have begun to ache.

They used to come back with fever and stomach ache from all those packaged food.

The web provides a vast audience of people aching for entertainment the way chicken tenders ache for dippin' sauce.

If her life makes you ache and shudder, you have to protect yourself first.

Lute's eyes ache from a series of small hemorrhages induced by the winds that plagued our descent.

He was left with a dull ache in his chest and the agonizing feeling that he'd been cheated.

My son comes over, says he has a stomach ache and wants to go home.

Well done show, but it also left me with an ache in my heart.

The graphics rock, the environments are totally immersive, and the violence will make your brain ache.

We truely know the work involved and the heart ache.

Child life workers on transplant wards ache to get isolation rooms wired.

Not so long ago, they were viewed so sentimentally it could make your teeth ache.

Tommy ache may happen but only if you are sensible to different food, not because of the quality of the food.

From the point of view of a drug, it's a long trip from the pill bottle to an ache or the site of an infection.

Now he confronts her in a moment fraught with ache and regret.

For example, if you work all day hammering or driving screws, your forearms will ache when you try to use them.

No doubt it charmed the people of this city, who still ache for their lost hero.

The same cat would come into her owner's bedroom and lie on the woman's stomach when she had a stomach ache or stomach upset.

They ache for dishes of black beans and rice, and they search the radio dial for salsa music instead of the omnipresent rock.

Coral reefs make me ache to gather the data necessary to protect their fragile ecosystems.

Which is fine for grilling chicken and pulling weeds, but that wonderful ache is gone.

Methyl salicylate is a wintergreen-scented chemical found in many over-the-counter products, including muscle ache creams.

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World English Dictionary

ache (eɪk)

—vb
1.	to feel, suffer, or be the source of a continuous dull pain
2.	to suffer mental anguish

—n
3.	a continuous dull pain

[Old English ācan (vb), æce (n), Middle English aken (vb), ache (n). Compare bake, batch]

'aching

—*adj*

'achingly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

ache

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

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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"). Achy (adj.) first attested 1875 in George Eliot's letters.

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Medical Dictionary

ache (āk)
n.
A dull persistent pain. v. ached, ach·ing, aches
To suffer a dull, sustained pain.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

ACHE

American College of Healthcare Executives
American Council for Headache Education

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