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Aching   /ˈeɪkɪŋ/   Listen
Aching

adjective
1.
Causing a dull and steady pain.  Synonym: achy.  "Her old achy joints"
noun
1.
A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.  Synonym: ache.



Ache

verb
(past & past part. ached; pres. part. aching)
1.
Feel physical pain.  Synonyms: hurt, suffer.
2.
Have a desire for something or someone who is not present.  Synonyms: languish, pine, yearn, yen.  "I am pining for my lover"
3.
Be the source of pain.  Synonyms: hurt, smart.



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"Aching" Quotes from Famous Books



... My head is aching, and I wish That I could feel tonight One well-remembered, tender touch That used to comfort me so much, And ...
— Poems - Vol. IV • Hattie Howard

... hissed as Joel prepared for a tackle. But Joel had no mind for keeping off; that cut in his head was aching like everything, and his own advice to Wills occurred to him and made him grin. Cloud swerved sharply, but he was too heavy to be a good dodger, and with a leap Joel was on him, tackling hard and true about the runner's hips. Cloud struggled, ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour

... of the soul there followed a long sad day, the repose of a broken spirit, in a great silence with the aching relief of duty performed.... Clerambault sat with his head against the back of his armchair, and thought; his body was feverish, his heart heavy with recollections. The tears fell unnoticed from his eyes, while out of doors nature awoke sadly to the last days of winter, like him stripped ...
— Clerambault - The Story Of An Independent Spirit During The War • Rolland, Romain

... devoting herself to her sick child; the attack had been sudden and severe, and all the previous night the mother had watched by the couch of the little sufferer with an aching heart, fearing she was to be taken from her; but now the danger seemed nearly over, a favorable change having taken ...
— Elsie's Motherhood • Martha Finley

... antediluvian roared, In the form of a Brahmin bull; And a Patagonian squeezed an onion, Filling my aching eyes full. ...
— The Dodge Club - or, Italy in 1859 • James De Mille


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