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Ache   /eɪk/   Listen
noun
Ache, Ach  n.  A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley. (Obs.)



Ache  n.  Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones." Note: Often used in composition, as, a headache, an earache, a toothache.



verb
Ache  v. i.  (past & past part. ached; pres. part. aching)  To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed. "My old bones ache." "The sins that in your conscience ache."






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"Ache" Quotes from Famous Books



... had only studied men instead of giving up all their time to so-called "loving and courting," there would not be so much dissatisfaction, heart-ache and complaint after marriage. A girl should try to select a man with control over himself, over his voice, his emotions, even the angle of his hat, and then she should practice control herself, until the two dispositions have ...
— The Colored Girl Beautiful • E. Azalia Hackley

... well as in his verse, Browning's love of color was always in evidence. "He dazzles us with scarlet, and crimson, and rubies, and the poppy's 'red effrontery,'" said an English critic; "with topaz, amethyst, and the glory of gold, and makes the sonnet ache with the luster of blue." When, in the haunting imagery of memory pictures, after leaving Florence, he reverted to the gardens of Isa Blagden, on Bellosguardo, the vision before him was of "the herbs in red flower, and ...
— The Brownings - Their Life and Art • Lilian Whiting

... at Port Chalmers and proceeded to Waine's Hotel. It was kept, I need hardly say, by a Scotsman, and it is there still. I felt that I had started a new lease of life. I couldn't believe it possible that I had got rid of every pain and ache and that I was as fit as fit could be. My first concern was to cable home and tell them not only of my safe arrival, but of the wonderful recovery that I had made, and that I intended to at once get to work and take advantage of the letters of introduction that I had taken with me. Two of these ...
— The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon • Jose Maria Gordon

... necessary for you to tell her I was asleep. The sun was so hot it made my head ache, and I guess it has burned my face to a blister," cautiously touching his ...
— Tabitha's Vacation • Ruth Alberta Brown

... trust herself to speak, but tears came into her eyes as she gave him her hand. He pressed it so hard as to leave a delicious ache, and hastened away. ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe


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