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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To suffer a dull, sustained pain.
  2. v. To feel sympathy or compassion.
  3. v. To yearn painfully: refugees who ached for their homeland.
  4. n. A dull, steady pain. See Synonyms at pain.
  5. n. A longing or desire; a yen.
  6. n. A painful sorrow.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Pain of some duration, in opposition to sudden twinges or spasmodic pain; a continued dull or heavy pain, as in toothache or earache.
  2. n. Synonyms See pain, n., and agony.
  3. To suffer pain; have or be in pain, or in continued pain; be distressed physically: as, his whole body ached.
  4. n. A name of garden-parsley, Petroselinum sativum.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
  2. n. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
  3. n. Parsley.
  4. n. A variant spelling of aitch.
  5. v. To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
  6. n. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
  7. n. Parsley.
  8. n. A variant spelling of aitch.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. “Such an ache in my bones.”
  2. v. To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. have a desire for something or someone who is not present
  2. n. a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain
  3. v. feel physical pain
  4. v. be the source of pain

Etymologies

  1. Middle English aken, from Old English acan.

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