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achingly

[ey-king]

adjective

causing physical pain or distress: treatment for an aching back.

full of or precipitating nostalgia, grief, loneliness, etc.

Origin:
1200–1250; Middle English; see ache, -ing²

Related forms

ach·ing·ly, adverb

un·ach·ing, adjective

un·ach·ing·ly, adverb

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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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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