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ache

[ayk] / eɪk /


VERB
feeling soreness or dull pain, often physical
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Angurweet is used as a remedy for ailments including stomach ache.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Still, her transformation of Parton’s clouded sunshine into a feral ache is stunning.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

“You were our hero and our hearts ache in your absence. We love you. We miss you.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

"It's tough work... the hardest part is carrying the seaweed back. It's very heavy and your shoulders ache afterwards."

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

They finished up with lemonade sweet enough to make their jaws ache.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

“There’s a lot of us kind of limping toward the end here, a lot of aches and pains this year.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The daughter of another medbed believer recalled her mother’s words: We won’t have those aches and pains anymore; your dad’s heart will be better.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I’ll be forever grateful for that. I’m deeply sad to learn Bobby was suffering. My heart aches for him, his family, and everyone who loved him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

"Has my body changed? I have no idea. I've got a few aches and pains, but if I sit in a chair for too long at my age I get aches and pains," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

My head aches and my body feels stiff and heavy.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

She wrote that her heart ached most looking at a poster her three children made when they were young.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Before Edward and Bella took over the world, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” viewers ached for David Boreanaz’s Angel and James Marsters’ Spike, centuries-old bros who fall for a very special high school blonde.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

During the workshops Rice says her hands cramped, her back hurt and her feet ached.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

"My heart ached, and I could only pray: 'God, please don't let that happen.'"

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025

Then I yelled, “You stupid old tree!” and I kicked its trunk as hard as I could so my foot ached something fierce, but I didn’t even whimper.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

My aching nostalgia isn’t limited to how the White House used to operate.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Showing her aching vulnerability, it's about a bank clerk with flaming locks of auburn hair who flirted with her husband.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

“That innocuous little essay untangled some aching knot inside me,” she writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

As the Aedes aegypti mosquito expanded its range across more of the Americas, it brought with it the delirium, jaundice, and aching joints of yellow fever.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

The same hostile roof now again rose before me: my prospects were doubtful yet; and I had yet an aching heart.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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