ache

🇺🇸 /eɪk/ 🇬🇧 /eɪk/
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Tags TOP10000CEFR-B1
verb
R

to feel a dull, ongoing pain

My head started to ache after staring at the screen all day.

R

to want something very much

She felt an ache to visit her childhood home again.

noun
R

a dull, ongoing pain in the body

The ache in my back made it hard to sleep.

translation

v. to feel a dull, ongoing pain; to want something very much
n. a dull, ongoing pain in the body

Word Forms

3rd Present aches
Progressive aching
Past ached
Perfect ached
Plural aches