ache
/eɪk/ noun B1- Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. · You may suffer a minor ache in your side.· The aches and pains died down after taking an analgesic.
- Emotional suffering causing discomfort and physical pain.
Plural aches
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It just satisfied me here”--she put one hand on her breast--“it made a queer funny ache and yet it was a pleasant ache.
Did you ever have an ache like that, Mr.
It gives me that pleasant ache again just to think of coming to a really truly home.
The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness.
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