单词 | aching |
释义 | aching (once / 985 pages) adjn Anything that's aching is sore and painful. After a hike up the side of a steep mountain or a long day walking around a city, you'll want to rest your aching feet. To ache is to feel a dull, constant pain, and aching things ache. Both words stem from the Old English acan, "suffer pain," from a Proto-Indo-European root that might be imitative of a groaning sound, the kind of noise you may make when you have an aching head or an aching tooth. Things are sometimes described as aching in a figurative way, too, when they're full of sorrow, like an aching heart or an aching loneliness. WORD FAMILYaching: achingly, achings+/ache: ached, aches, aching, achy USAGE EXAMPLESAnd it was a chance to explore what drives this man and his passion for counseling and teaching hoops in this achingly beautiful land. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) As a young man, he converted from Judaism to Christianity, aching to be accepted as a German patriot. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) The players, aching from his demanding conditioning sessions, were lingering at their tables. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1adj causing a dull and steady pain my aching head Syn achy painful causing physical or psychological pain 2n a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain Syn|Hypo|Hyper ache odontalgia, toothache an ache localized in or around a tooth backachean ache localized in the back cephalalgia, head ache, headachepain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs bellyache, gastralgia, stomach ache, stomachachean ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region earache, otalgiaan ache localized in the middle or inner ear aerodontalgiapain in the teeth that results from a change in air pressure (as in flying or mountain climbing) cluster headache, histamine headachea painful recurring headache associated with the release of histamine from cells hemicrania, megrim, migraine, sick headachea severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men sick headachea headache accompanied by nausea sinus headachea headache resulting from congestion or infection in the paranasal sinuses tension headachea headache located at the back of the head; usually caused by body tension resulting from overwork or psychological stress lumbago, lumbar painbackache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc hurting, pain a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder |
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