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aching

verbadjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈeɪ.kɪŋ//

That aches; continuously painful; that causes pain.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of achepresent participle and gerund of ache

adjective

  1. 1

    That aches; continuously painful; that causes pain.

    The aching heart, the aching head.

    There was a long spell of silence, a big, aching void, and then from the Professor a keen 'S-s-s-s!'

noun

  1. 1

    The feeling of an ache; a dull pain.

Forms

plural
achings
comparative
more aching
superlative
most aching
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).