aching

Plural: achings

Noun

• a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain
• The feeling of an ache; a dull pain.

Verb

Verb Forms: ache, ached, aching, aches

• Suffering from a dull, continuous pain.
• feel physical pain
• have a desire for something or someone who is not present
• be the source of pain
• present participle and gerund of ache

Adjective Satellite

• causing a dull and steady pain
  • "my aching head"

Adj

• That aches; continuously painful; that causes pain.

Adjective

• Sore; causing a continuous, dull pain.

Examples

• He had an aching desire to play the seven-letter word on his rack.
• His head was aching from trying to unscramble the particularly tricky Words With Friends rack.

Synonyms

ache, achy, hurt, languish, pine, smart, suffer, yearn, yen, achesome, aching, griefful, hurty, pained, painfilled, painful, raw, smartful, smarting, sore, suffering, tender, tormented

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