ache
Example Sentences
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My head stops aching and the sharp pain in my ribs goes down as I sit on a log and drink tea and let the beauty work into me for that whole day.
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My heart aches with grief for those children, and my chest burns with anger at this war that has set friends against friends and neighbours against neighbours.
From Literature
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“What would he want with the sea, and the cold, and the aching hard work?”
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The way he bit his lip, the nervous but hopeful expression, the searching green eyes: he was so achingly familiar.
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She wants GPs better trained to recognise symptoms sooner, and more research into the condition, stressing it is "not as simple as just having a tummy ache here and there".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.