aching
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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:
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.
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.
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ache (eɪk) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 | |
| 'aching | |
| —adj | |
| 'achingly | |
| —adv | |
| 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 | |
| '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
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
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Example sentences
Used to have aching jaws in the am from grinding my teeth with tension at night.
The old basketball star walks gingerly on aching knees.
Jimmy went to a veterans' hospital or clinic, to have his aching leg examined.
The heat feels so good, especially when you are chilled to the bone or aching in every muscle and joint.
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