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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. intransitive 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. obsolete Parsley.
  4. n. rare 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. Representing the pronunciation of the letter H. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English aken, from Old English acan. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. paid

same context (18)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. pang
  2. throb
  3. headache
  1. hunger
  2. weariness
  3. discomfort
  1. tremor
  2. tingle
  3. torment
  1. spasm
  2. anguish
  3. chill
  1. bruise
  2. pain
  3. fatigue
  1. urge
  2. yearn
  3. tension

rhymes (42)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Blake
  2. Drake
  3. Haik
  4. Jake
  5. Lake
  6. Snake
  7. ake
  8. awake
  1. bake
  2. betake
  3. brake
  4. break
  5. cake
  6. drake
  7. fake
  8. flake
  1. forsake
  2. haik
  3. hake
  4. jacque
  5. jake
  6. lake
  7. make
  8. mistake
  1. naik
  2. opaque
  3. paik
  4. pake
  5. partake
  6. quake
  7. rake
  8. remake
  1. retake
  2. sake
  3. shaik
  4. shake
  5. snake
  6. spake
  7. stake
  8. steak
  1. take
  2. wake

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. earache
  2. backache
  3. gastralgia
  4. toothache
  5. otalgia
  1. stomach ache
  2. stomachache
  3. odontalgia
  4. bellyache
  5. pain
  1. ake
  2. eche
  3. face-ague
  4. aching
  5. ach
  1. wark
  2. osteocope
  3. stound
  4. cœliodynia
  5. aitch
  1. gale
  2. misery
  3. ache
  4. acheless
  5. dull
  1. twitch
  2. pang
  3. petroselinum

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  1. often misspelled
  1. vccv
  1. ch sounds like k
  1. monosyllable

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