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Toothache

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

n. An aching pain in or near a tooth.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A pain or ache in a tooth.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Pain in the teeth; odontalgia. Toothache was once supposed to be caused by a worm in the tooth. Compare worm.

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

n. an ache localized in or around a tooth

Word Usage

"He was so fearful of losing his new-found facility that he practiced for the rest of that day, and lay down at night with what he called the toothache in every muscle."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

ache aching

Hyponym

aerodontalgia

Form

toothachey toothachy

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

odontalgia dentalgia

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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