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Aching

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Dully painful.

adj. Full of painful yearning or sorrow: an aching heart.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Present participle of ache.

adj. That aches; continuously painful. See ache

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. That aches; continuously painful. See ache.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Enduring or causing pain; painful.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain

adj. causing a dull and steady pain

Word Usage

""No craving void left aching in the breast") _an aching void_; and the nephew, Dr. Arthur Aikin, by way of variety, _a void aching_; whilst Mrs. Barbault he designated as _that pleonasm of nakedness_; since, as if it were not enough to be _bare_, she was also"

Equivalent

painful

Variant

ache

Form

achingly

Verb Stem

ache

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

baking braking breaking faking flaking forsaking making mistaking quaking raking