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Definition: Aching |
AchingAdjective1. Causing a dull and steady pain; "my aching head"; "her old achy joints". Noun1. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aching" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: AchingSynonyms: achy (adj), ache (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pain | Concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache; carking cares; heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken heart; heavy affliction, gnawing grief. |
Adjective: in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain; Noun: suffering; Verb: pained, afflicted, worried, displeased; aching, griped, sore; (physical pain); on the rack, in limbo; between hawk and buzzard. | |
Physical Pain | Painful; aching. Verb: sore, raw. |
Noun: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering; dolour, ache; aching. Verb: smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis. | |
Regret | Prey on the mind, weigh on the mind, have a weight on the mind; leave an aching void. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Aching |
| English words defined with "aching": achy ♦ breakbone fever ♦ dandy fever, dengue, dengue fever, disregarded ♦ forgotten. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "aching": Aching Void ♦ Colorado Tick Fever Virus, copper colic, copper fever, copper-fume fever ♦ deck ankle ♦ non-narcotic analgesic ♦ Peripheral Vascular Disease ♦ TOOTHACHE PLANTS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ow, my aching head (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) Now Papa, you know I've been aching all over for a good horse to ride (Old Yeller; writing credit: Fred Gipson;) I'm the Gypsy, the Acid Queen, Pay me before I start. I'm the Gypsy, and I'm guaranteed To mend his aching heart (Tommy; writing credit: Pete Townshend; Ken Russell) | |
Lyrics | My mind was aching (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC) My aching heart would bleed (No More "I Love You's"; performing artist: Annie Lennox) Is it aching with some nameless need (Roll To Me; performing artist: Del Amitri) And I've got an aching head (Wonderful Tonight; performing artist: ERIC CLAPTON) I will twist the knife and bleed my aching heart (#1 Crush; performing artist: Garbage) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Aching Youths (1928) The Mansion of Aching Hearts (1925) A Nurse of an Aching Heart (1917) An Aching Void (1911) | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She paused and licked her dry lips, and her whole face was an aching question |
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Health | Muscle pain can range from an aching muscle, spasm, or strain, to the severe spasticity that accompanies paralysis. (references) | |
These include fever, rash, swelling around the eye and hands, severe headaches, extreme fatigue, aching muscles and joints. (references) | ||
Headaches, fevers, chills, cough, eye swelling, aching joints and muscle pains, itchy skin, diarrhea, or constipation follow the first symptoms. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Aching" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 79.05% of the time. "Aching" is used about 253 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 79.05% | 200 | 21,580 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.79% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.98% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.19% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 253 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "aching": aching all over ♦ leave an aching void. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "aching": arm-aching, ball-aching, belly-aching, eye-aching, heart-aching, limb-aching, piste-aching, tooth-aching. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "aching"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | موجع (agonizing, causing pain, distressed, excruciating, grievous, intense pain, painful, sore, tormenting), مؤلم (agonizing, causing pain, distressful, distressing, excruciating, grievous, painful, sad, sore, sorrowful, tormenting, tormentor). (various references) | |
Chinese | 酸疼 (Ached). (various references) | |
Czech | bolí celé tìlo (aching all over). (various references) | |
Finnish | päätäni särkee (I have a headache, my head is aching), kirvelevin sydämin (with an aching heart). (various references) | |
French | endolori (achy), douloureux. (various references) | |
German | schmerzhaft (achy, dolorous, dolorously, painful, painfully), schmerzend (hurting, painful, paining). (various references) | |
Greek | πονών, που πονεί, οδυνηρόσ (afflictive, baleful, baneful, painful). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כואב (painful, sick, sore), כאוב (painful, sore). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fájó (ailing, sore, suffering). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sakit-sakitan (ailing). (various references) | |
Italian | doloroso (achy, distressing, dolorous, grievous, painful, sad, sore, woeful, woesome). (various references) | |
Korean | 아"" (soreness). (various references) | |
Manx | pian (ache, dolour, pain), gonnagh (painful, peevish, smart, sore), gewagh (painful), criuagh, criu (ache). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | achingay.(various references) | |
Romanian | dureros (afflicting, distressing, dolorous, grievous, grievously, heart-breaking, painful, sad, smart, sorrowful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bolan (ailing, dolorous, excruciating, grievous, pained, painful, sore), bol (ache, affliction, anguish, dolor, dolour, grief, misery, pain, pang, wrench). (various references) | |
Spanish | que duele (sore), dolorido (heartsick, pained, painful, plaintive, sore, tender), dolor (ache, agony, anguish, distress, dolor, dolour, grief, infliction, pain, smart, soreness, sorrow, suffering, trouble), compungido (apologetic, apologetical, contrite, remorseful, repentant). (various references) | |
Swedish | värkande (lame), dov (dull, hallow, hollow, muffled, obtuse, stifled). (various references) | |
Turkish | acıyan (pitying, sore), acıma (commiseration, compassion, feeling, pathos, pity, Ruth, sympathy), ağrıyan (sore), ağrılı (sore). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хворий (ailing, case, dicky, diseased, ill, invalid, pasty, poorly, sick, sickish, sickly, sore, stricken), ниючий (nagging), болючий (afflictive, hurtful, painful). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aching": achingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "aching": antipoaching, approaching, attaching, baching, beaching, bellyaching, bleaching, breaching, broaching, caching, coaching, detaching, encroaching, forereaching, impeaching, leaching, misteaching, nonteaching, outcoaching, outpreaching, outreaching, overbleaching, overcoaching, overreaching, peaching, pleaching, poaching, preaching, reaching, reattaching, reproaching, reteaching, roaching, stomaching, teaching, unteaching, upreaching. (additional references) | |
Words containing "aching": preachingly, reproachingly, teachings. (additional references) | |
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"Aching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aahhing, aahing, aceing, Achan, Achi, Achieng, Achong, ahin, ahing, ahint, Akhund, aking, alchian, Alchin, apchin, ashing, Ashling, Auchan, Auchen, Auchin, chheng, Ch'iang, chieng, ching, Fachin, Fachini, Ichang, kachina, kaching, Nanchang, oohhing, Scheng, schwing, waching. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "aching" (pronounced ā"king) |
| 4 | ā" k i ng | baking, braking, breaking, faking, flaking, forsaking, making, mistaking, quaking, raking, remaking, retaking, shaking, snaking, staking, taking, waking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, filmmaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quarterbacking, racking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remarking, restocking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n" | |
-1 letter: acing, chain, chang, china. | |
-2 letters: agin, cain, chia, chin, gain, hang, inch, nigh. | |
-3 letters: ain, ani, can, chi, cig, gan, ghi, gin, hag, hic, hin, ich, nag, nah. | |
-4 letters: ag, ah, ai, an, ha, hi, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n" | |
+1 letter: arching, baching, caching, cashing, chafing, chagrin, charing, chasing, chawing, gnathic, hacking. | |
+2 letters: achingly, archings, batching, beaching, catching, chaffing, chagrins, chaining, chairing, chalking, champing, chancing, changing, chanting, chapping, charging, charking, charming, charring, charting, chasings, chatting, cheating, clashing, coaching, crashing, hackling, hatching, latching, leaching, marching, matching, nightcap, parching, patching, peaching, poaching, ranching, reaching, roaching, scathing, teaching, thacking, watching, whacking, yachting. | |
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