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ache

[eyk] / eɪk /


VERB
feeling soreness or dull pain, often physical
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She wants GPs better trained to recognise symptoms sooner, and more research into the condition, stressing it is "not as simple as just having a tummy ache here and there".

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

Put another way, the artworks in “Duet” express an age-old ache: to remember.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

The audience has been steadily aging as well, feeling every ache that the decade between the show’s first season and the present has inflicted.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2025

During her friend’s cancer treatment, Chong visited Hang’s home in Rosemead several times a week, bringing mango or coffee ice cream to ease the ache of chemotherapy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2017

My ankles ache with the chill, but when I burrow my feet into the soft, silty mud, my toes are cozy and warm.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila




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