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ache

noun as in sore feeling; dull pain

verb as in feeling soreness or dull pain, often physical

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As a now-firmly middle-aged person with the aches that entails, crossovers are easy to get into and out of than low-slung cars.

Bonnie Lippe figured the aches and fever she and others in her tour group were experiencing was related to the rich food or the drinking water.

Families could safely spend holidays together again if the worst-case scenario shifted from being put on a ventilator or dying to possible fever and body aches.

Low-effort and gentle on the stomach, it’s embraced as a go-to for belly aches, colds, or days of general discomfort.

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Its dense EPP foam was made to smooth away aches and pains, and that’s exactly what it does.

He was a magician, an invisible teller of tales with the power to make my sides ache without telling a single joke.

Around 3am, my spindly legs are beginning to ache from balancing on deck, as we heel with each tack.

But the ache got worse and worse and the next time I fell I couldn't pick him up again, so I dragged him home by the leg.

I moved him from one shoulder to the other, trying to get rid of the ache in the muscles.

Thinking about some problems is so hard that it can make your head ache just thinking about thinking about them.

And a rampant ache in my head, seconded by a medium-sized gash in the scalp, didn't make for an access of optimism at that moment.

It sent a pleasant tingle through his veins and made that injured arm of his ache again.

She was very glib with the sheep and the geese, but the grindstone made her head ache, and she gave it up.

I could bear it if I were the only one, but to think that I must make somebodys heart ache as mine does!

Oh, how it makes a poor fellow's back ache, to stoop down and weed onions for half a day.

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On this page you'll find 91 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ache, such as: anguish, misery, pang, soreness, spasm, and twinge.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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