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- present participle and gerund of ache
Adjective
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- That aches; continuously painful; that causes pain.
- Synonyms: smarting, sore; see also Thesaurus:painful
- 1851, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend:
- The aching heart, the aching head.Category:English terms with quotations#ACHING
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 189:
- There was a long spell of silence, a big, aching void, and then from the Professor a keen 'S-s-s-s!'Category:English terms with quotations#ACHING
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Translations
To suffer from a nagging ache
Noun
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- The feeling of an ache; a dull pain.
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