Aching

aching
    adj 1: causing a dull and steady pain; "my aching head"; "her
           old achy joints" [syn: {aching}, {achy}]
    n 1: a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain [syn:
         {ache}, {aching}]
    

Ache \Ache\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ached}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Aching}.] [OE. aken, AS. acan, both strong verbs, AS. acan,
   imp. [=o]c, p. p. acen, to ache; perh. orig. to drive, and
   akin to agent.]
   To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued
   pain; to be distressed. "My old bones ache." --Shak.
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         The sins that in your conscience ache.   --Keble.
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Aching \Ach"ing\, a.
   That aches; continuously painful. See {Ache}. --
   {Ach"ing*ly}, adv.
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         The aching heart, the aching head.       --Longfellow.
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89 Moby Thesaurus words for "aching":
      Heimweh, ache, achy, afflictive, algetic, angina, backache,
      bellyache, blow, cephalalgia, chilblains, chill, chilliness,
      chilling, cold creeps, cold shivers, colic, collywobbles, cramp,
      creeps, cryopathy, cut, desiderium, distress, dithers, dolor,
      duck bumps, earache, fret, frostbite, gnawing, goose bumps,
      goose pimples, gooseflesh, grief, gripe, gripes, gut-ache,
      hankering, headache, heartburn, hemicrania, homesickness, honing,
      horripilation, hurt, hurtful, hurting, injury, kibe, languishing,
      languishment, lesion, longing, mal du pays, maladie du pays,
      megrim, migraine, nasty blow, nostalgia, nostomania, odontalgia,
      otalgia, pain, pang, passion, pining, pyrosis, shivering, shivers,
      shock, sick headache, sore, sore spot, spasm, splitting headache,
      stomachache, stress, stress of life, stroke, suffering,
      tender spot, throbbing pain, throes, toothache, wound, wrench,
      yearning, yen