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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



... pains in the head and back, aching in the joints, yawning, followed by coldness of the hands and feet, blueness of the nails and skin of the hands, general chilliness, sometimes "shaking." This lasts from a few minutes in some cases, to several hours in others. The chill is followed by a fever, which is generally ...
— An Epitome of Homeopathic Healing Art - Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time • B. L. Hill

... fellow would have grasped at it with both hands. But regret and complaint were useless now. The night and the day which followed were equally painful to him, and his trouble weighed upon him so much that he never felt hunger. Towards sunset he sat down with an aching heart on the rock where the mermaid had sat two evenings ago. He began to weep bitterly, and exclaimed, sobbing, "If she does not come back to me, I will live no longer, but either die of hunger on this rock, or cast myself headlong into the waves, and end my miserable ...
— The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country • William Forsell Kirby

... passed conditions became horrible. Aching eyes scanned the horizon day and night until the weak and weary watchers would sink exhausted to the bottom of the boat, and there wrest in dream-disturbed slumber a moment's respite from the ...
— The Return of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... that no more should be said, and, her head aching with perplexity, hope that some light might yet be thrown on the matter. There must be pain and grief whenever it should be explained; but this would be far better, even for the offender, than the present deception: and the ...
— The Stokesley Secret • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Wally assured her. He suddenly realized that he had not known how tired he was; something in his head began to whirl round, and a darkness came before his aching eyes. He felt Jim catch him; and then he was sitting on the ground, propped against the fence, and blinking up at them all, while indignantly assuring them that he ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce


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