aching
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English
[edit ]Pronunciation
[edit ]Verb
[edit ]aching
- present participle and gerund of ache
Adjective
[edit ]aching (comparative more aching, superlative most aching)
- 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.
- 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!'
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:aching.
Derived terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]To suffer from a nagging ache
- Māori: hīwiniwini , kōrangaranga
- Spanish: adolorido (es) , dolorido (es) , adolorado (es) , doliente (es)
Noun
[edit ]aching (plural achings )
- The feeling of an ache; a dull pain.
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