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Headache   /hˈɛdˌeɪk/   Listen
Headache

noun
1.
Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness.  Synonyms: concern, vexation, worry.  "It's a major worry"
2.
Pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs.  Synonyms: cephalalgia, head ache.



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"Headache" Quotes from Famous Books



... worthily. Imagine an unending clatter of instruments without any melody; a lingering and endless groaning among the bass parts; and the whole the most mournful and boring thing that I ever heard in my life. I could not put up with it for half an hour without getting a violent headache. ...
— Musicians of To-Day • Romain Rolland

... her, and would say she was the wretchedest woman on the face of the earth, that she should live undesired until her friends were all tired, and then die unlamented; and would burst into tears and cry herself into a tearing headache, and have ice on her head and a blister on the back of her neck, and be quite confident that now she was really going off with ...
— Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature • Various

... forgot to make the knot in the bandage he was tying about the sweeper's head. The sweeper forgot the pain of his new headache and the blood which trickled down his face and fell upon the front of his overalls. As though governed by the same set of wires these two swung about, and with the officer they stared at the stranger. And as they stared, recognition came into the eyes of all three, and they marvelled ...
— The Thunders of Silence • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

... trouble, took Kate to her room. Would she not eat her supper? Then salts were good for headache-should she bring a bottle from her box? After many fruitless inquiries and nervous protestations, the good soul bade Kate ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine

... hear from the folks to-morrow that they've changed their minds. Do drop in again some time. I've enjoyed your visit, and don't forget to tell Miss Bangs to be careful of her headache!" ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various


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