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ache

[eyk] / eɪk /


VERB
feeling soreness or dull pain, often physical
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"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

Good TV is the product of many hands working harmoniously to merge visuals, writing and performance into stories that breathe, laugh and ache along with you.

From Salon Jun. 20, 2026

Arnaldi described how he became ill on Thursday night, waking up with stomach ache at about 1am.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2026

She presents her daughter’s sudden death in crisp, often tart prose that cannot mask the ache that lurks beneath the surface.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

It was like he had been standing for so long, ignoring the ache in his knees and ankles, and now, finally able to sit down, felt every pain at once.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

You may also get a mild fever, nausea, headache or muscle aches but these symptoms should disappear after one or two days.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

About 20% of infected people will develop mild symptoms such as a fever, body aches and nausea.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

The Gibbses don’t like to focus on their aches and pains as they age.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

The researchers emphasized that their work focuses only on serious muscle disorders that result in hospital admission or death, not the milder muscle aches and pains that some people experience.

From Science Daily Jun. 30, 2026

Tata was sometimes dependable, but just as often she was incoherent, or laid up with aches and pains.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

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

Those ached more than stung and left me completely voiceless for the following 24 hours.

From Slate Apr. 18, 2026

Another exam taker, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, said he was exhausted and his head ached after experiencing multiple glitches Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 28, 2025

At school his back ached from sitting in a stiff chair, and the desks were so rickety it was a challenge to write neatly.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

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 morning after losing to Federer, an aching Willis limped to the shower at 4:30am to get ready for an interview on ITV's Good Morning Britain.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

At the film’s aching core is the romantic tether between the boys that refuses to die even in the face of gory attacks, painful betrayals and even uncertainty among the two of them.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

In the morning—before my aching knee and bulging blisters relegated my saunter to a limp—a 32-mile walk around Manhattan sounded like a good way to spend the first Saturday in May.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

She believes, down to her aching bones, that God won’t give her anything she can’t handle.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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