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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

Mr. Barragán, a reporter and researcher for the New York Times based in Madrid, is good on the small ache that makes the whole enterprise possible.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

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

From BBC Jun. 5, 2026

There’s an ache in my chest, but it doesn’t hurt.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Less common symptoms are vomiting, body aches and low-grade fever.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

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

Common symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches, and abdominal pain.

From Science Daily Jun. 22, 2026

To soothe the resulting stomach aches, the macaques have developed a habit of "geophagy, the deliberate consumption of earth", a recent study has found.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

I will admit there is still the tedium of being forced to do arithmetic until my mind aches.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

He was tired and his body ached, he says, but the boss was “mean” and ordered him to get back to work.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 20, 2025

Her tailbone ached as she hugged her knees to her chest and rocked back and forth, considering plan after plan.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Plus, Jessie, still voiced with such beautiful feeling by Joan Cusack, owns “Toy Story 5,” with the movie even revisiting the aching piano notes of “When She Loved Me.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

My feet were still aching when I boarded my flight home the next day.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

My knee was aching, likely a callback to surgery at 16 to repair torn ligaments.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

But Pasbar has followed events in Iran closely, his heart aching as he watched the recent crackdown on protests until he couldn't bear it any longer.

From Barron's Mar. 16, 2026

“Oh my aching ear. Father Abbot, you wouldn’t see a poor son of the Spike suffering like this without a drop of last October’s nutbrown ale to wet his parched gullet,” he pleaded.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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