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ache

[eyk] / eɪk /


VERB
feeling soreness or dull pain, often physical
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Ella can't remember when she first started grinding her teeth at night, but she can vividly recall the excruciating jaw ache, the headaches, and being told her molars were disappearing.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

You could ache for the cozy city of the past in “The Royal Tenenbaums” or grabble with the schism of everything suddenly feeling different in “Mulholland Drive.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 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

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

The ache squeezing my heart eased up a little, and somehow, I was able to fall asleep.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

She is in her late 70s and complains of nagging aches and pains, neuropathy, fatigue, anxiety, and occasional changes in her weight.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

Suede frontman Brett Anderson describes the band's 10th album as "broken music for broken people", and the music aches for connection in a technological age that feels increasingly disconnected.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Others will experience mild symptoms such as fever, body aches and nausea.

From Los Angeles Times 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

She wants to cry, because her heart aches.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Her mother ultimately relented and let her daughter attend art school, but Kusama ached to stretch beyond the country’s traditional Nihonga painting style.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 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

Quiroz, on the advice of a therapist, cried with him, explaining that she, too, ached with pain.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

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

From BBC Jan. 14, 2025

He was too scared to be hungry, but-he felt bruised and stiff from the fight with Hord, and his shoulders ached from being tied up for so long.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

Green lasers shot out into the crowd, revealing the faces of fans who’d waited all night on aching feet to see their favorites.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

“Oh, isn’t it! All about people you know, and such fun! You ought to hear it, and I’ve been aching to tell it this long time. Come, you begin.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott




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