Definitions for ache

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Spelling: [eyk]
IPA: /eɪk/

Ache is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in ache (aceh).

Definitions for ache

noun

  1. a continuous, dull pain (in contrast to a sharp, sudden, or sporadic pain).

verb (used without object)

  1. to have or suffer a continuous, dull pain:
  2. to feel great sympathy, pity, or the like:
  3. to feel eager; yearn; long:

Origin of ache

before 900; (v.) Middle English aken, Old English acan; perhaps metaphoric use of earlier unattested sense “drive, impel” (compare Old Norse aka, cognate with Latin agere, Greek ágein); (noun

Examples for ache

Many years ago she died, but the ache comes back now, as I think of her.

She had dreaded her loneliness with the ache that is despair; but she was not lonely any more.

But the ache got worse and worse and the next time I fell I couldn't pick him up again, so I dragged him home by the leg.

For my own part I was now feeling the ache of numerous and severe bruises.

If you've occupied the different points on a romantic triangle, your heart might ache just a bit thinking about these three.

"Your father is nothing but an ache and a stound to you, lass," Sim would say in a whimper.

I miss it with an ache every day of my life, and I fear for the family I have in the Negev, where Palestinian rockets land.

Around 3am, my spindly legs are beginning to ache from balancing on deck, as we heel with each tack.

It made his eyes yearn for the sight of her with an ache that was physical.

I moved him from one shoulder to the other, trying to get rid of the ache in the muscles.

Word Value for ache
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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