aching
causing physical pain or distress: treatment for an aching back.
full of or precipitating nostalgia, grief, loneliness, etc.
Origin of aching
1Other words from aching
- ach·ing·ly, adverb
- un·ach·ing, adjective
- un·ach·ing·ly, adverb
Words Nearby aching
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use aching in a sentence
The moment I got that cold, hard weighted pot in my arms, the aching in my heart and my arms immediately went away.
How Cuddly Comfort Objects May Help Adults with Anxiety | Jamie Friedlander Serrano | April 8, 2022 | TimeAs my injured leg improves, my left leg starts aching, then throbbing, near my hip.
Liberals are aching to see a Democratic president really tackle these issues in an aggressive way.
I was itchy from the bugs, aching everywhere, blistery, and wet.
An Obsessive’s Search for a Lost Jungle City | Christopher S. Stewart | December 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTShe was left with an aching desire to turn back time and stop the progression of that clock.
The Professor and the Doomsday Clock: ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ & Signs of John Kennedy Toole’s Suicide | Cory MacLauchlin | December 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
The organization has been aching to move against the judiciary for some time, he said.
Deaths of Gaber Salah, Islam Masoud Signal Egypt’s Dangerous Divisions | Alastair Beach | November 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was a boy of eighteen, aching over his first love affair; and she was divinely mothering him.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodThere was a vicious aching in his nerves, his muscles were flaccid and unstrung; a numbness was in his brain as well.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodUpon such expectation, Allcraft stood—upon such props suffered his aching soul to rest.
She was as incapable of jealousy as of aching vanity in the fact of a son whom the world was never permitted to forget.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonTom easily found the mightier scale his aching heart so hungrily desired.
The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
Browse