ache

  • 31ache — /ayk/, v., ached, aching, n. v.i. 1. to have or suffer a continuous, dull pain: His whole body ached. 2. to feel great sympathy, pity, or the like: Her heart ached for the starving animals. 3. to feel eager; yearn; long: She ached to be the… …

    Universalium

  • 32ache — 1 verb (I) 1 if part of your body aches, you feel a continuous, but not very sharp pain there: The noise of the traffic made my head ache. | an aching back 2 ache to do sth/for sth to want to do or have something very much: I was aching to tell… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 33ache — ache1 [ eık ] noun count * 1. ) a pain that is continuous and unpleasant, but usually not very strong: a dull ache (=slight, but still unpleasant): There was a dull ache in his stomach. aches and pains (=minor pains that continue over a period of …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 34ache — 01. My thumb has really been [aching] since I shut the door on it. 02. The hockey player had a terrible [ache] in his shoulder after the game. 03. Her tooth was [aching] so much that she had trouble falling asleep. 04. When I had the flu, my skin …

    Grammatical examples in English

  • 35ache — head·ache; or·ache; ache; ache·ni·al; …

    English syllables

  • 36Ache — Ach Ach, Ache Ache, n. [F. ache, L. apium parsley.] A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley. [Obs.] Holland. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 37ACHE — s. f. Herbe d un beau vert, plante ombellifère qui ressemble au persil. Dans certains jeux de la Grèce, on donnait une couronne d ache au vainqueur. Vert comme de l ache, comme ache …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 38ache — Synonyms and related words: ache for, ache to, aching, agonize, ail, angina, anguish, backache, be dying for, be dying to, be hurting for, bellyache, blanch, bleed, blench, blow, brood over, burn to, cephalalgia, chilblains, chill, chilliness,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 39ache — [OE] Of the noun ache and the verb ache, the verb came first. In Old English it was acan. From it was formed the noun, æce or ece. For many centuries, the distinction between the two was preserved in their pronunciation: in the verb, the ch was… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 40ache — [OE] Of the noun ache and the verb ache, the verb came first. In Old English it was acan. From it was formed the noun, æce or ece. For many centuries, the distinction between the two was preserved in their pronunciation: in the verb, the ch was… …

    Word origins