Synonyms for ache
eɪkache

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1. ache

   Pain is the most general term of this group, including all the others; pain is a disturbing sensation from which nature revolts, resulting from some injurious external interference (as from a wound, a bruise, a harsh word, etc.), or from some lack of what one needs, craves, or cherishes (as, the pain of hunger or bereavement), or from some abnormal action of bodily or mental functions (as, the pains of disease, envy, or discontent). Suffering is one of the severer forms of pain. The prick of a needle causes pain, but we should scarcely speak of it as suffering. Distress is too strong a word for little hurts, too feeble for the intensest suffering, but commonly applied to some continuous or prolonged trouble or need; as, the distress of a shipwrecked crew, or of a destitute family. Ache is lingering pain, more or less severe; pang, a pain short, sharp, intense, and perhaps repeated. We speak of the pangs of hunger or of remorse. Throe is a violent and thrilling pain. Paroxysm applies to an alternately recurring and receding pain, which comes as it were in waves; the paroxysm is the rising of the wave. Torment and torture are intense and terrible sufferings. Agony and anguish express the utmost pain or suffering of body or mind. Agony of body is that with which the system struggles; anguish that by which it is crushed.

   Synonyms:
   agony, anguish, distress, pain, pang, paroxysm, suffering, throe, torment, torture, twinge, wo(e)

   Antonyms:
   comfort, delight, ease, enjoyment, peace, rapture, relief, solace

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1. achenoun

   Synonyms:
   pain, suffering, smart, anguish, pang

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. ache, achingverb

   a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain

   Synonyms:
   aching

2. hurt, ache, sufferverb

   feel physical pain

   "Were you hurting after the accident?"

   Synonyms:
   injure, get, hurt, abide, endure, stand, suffer, lose, smart, tolerate, meet, support, stick out, wound, stomach, sustain, pine, spite, brook, bear, yen, bruise, yearn, pain, offend, languish, digest, have, anguish, put up

3. ache, yearn, yen, pine, languishverb

   have a desire for something or someone who is not present

   "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"

   Synonyms:
   smart, languish, hurt, fade, pine away, yearn, long, suffer, pine, hanker, waste, yen

4. ache, smart, hurtverb

   be the source of pain

   Synonyms:
   smart, languish, hurt, wound, injure, yearn, bruise, offend, suffer, pine, anguish, spite, pain, yen

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   • Long
   • Perceive

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. smarted

   to feel a sharp, stinging pain, as in a wound

   Submitted by anonymous on December 20, 2020  

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1. achenoun

   Synonyms:
   aching, pain, continued pain

2. acheverb

   Synonyms:
   be in pain, feel or suffer pain

3. acheverb

   Synonyms:
   be painful, give pain

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1. List of paraphrases for "ache":

   tummy, pain, aceh, stomachache

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ACHE

   Synonyms:
   acetylcholinesterase, OTTHUMP00000211347, EC 3.1.1.7, OTTHUMP00000211349, YT, OTTHUMP00000211356, acetylcholinesterase (Yt blood group), apoptosis-related acetylcholinesterase, ARACHE, Yt blood group, N-ACHE, AChE, OTTHUMP00000211345, EC 3.1.1, OTTHUMP00000211346

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1. Henry Adams:

   You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

2. Greg Poland:

   If you have an acute case of coronavirus or flu, you will feel so tired, so achy, you'd basically be driven to bed. Everybody would see the difference, allergies may make you feel tired, but they're not going to cause severe muscle or joint ache.

3. Tessa Majors:

   Our hearts ache as we watch Tess's friends return to school, perform concerts, start new jobs, and experience all the things that our daughter never will. It is hard for many old friends to be around us. Our grief is too profound. We are too changed from the people we used to be.

4. Tiger Woods:

   Am I ever going to have full mobility ? No. Never again, but I'll be able to get stronger. It's going to ache, but that's the way it's going to be.

5. Clifford Oto/The Record/AP LaTour:

   Then there’s the, ‘Oh my gosh, this is it.’ There’s a searing burn, and then there’s an ache.