[
US
/ˈeɪk/
]
VERB
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have a desire for something or someone who is not present
She ached for a cigarette
I am pining for my lover - be the source of pain
-
feel physical pain
Were you hurting after the accident?
NOUN
- a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain
How To Use ache In A Sentence
- But at lunch on the first day we were approached by the helpful Hotel Manager Henri and offered a swap to an overwater bungalow.
- The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
- It wasn't a bad program; with full profs as teachers, I read a lot and learned a lot.
- Apart from any other objection, a different classification would be reached if the characters were used in a different sequence.
- Thell Torrence's name may not be familiar to the average fight fan but he, along with a couple of others, is the premier teacher of the manly art in the USA.
- Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
- Each casemate mounted a three-gun battery of either 100mm or 150mm, and the southern side received additional cover from a detached fort mounting three 100mm gun turrets. Steel Victory
- As Appling reached down for the ball, it took a bad hop and caromed off his shoulder.
- IS is said to have used chlorine gas in attacks and built up a substantial chemical weapons cache. The Sun
- There are two main approaches: one is a synthetic plug the same shape as a cork that can be placed in the top of the bottle in the same way as a cork and removed with a corkscrew, so preserving the ritual of opening a bottle of wine.