Meaning

2 senses
  1. (intransitive, stative)To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.

    My feet were aching for days after the marathon.

    Every muscle in his body ached.

    weh tun, schmerzen

    боле́тьbolétʹ

    болі́тиbolíty, хворі́тиxvoríty, захворі́тиzaxvoríty

    be the source of pain

  2. (literary, rare, transitive)To cause someone or something to suffer pain.

    be in pain

Examples

197 sentences
  1. I ache all over.

    У мене все болить. — deniko

    ruУ меня всё болит. — Biga

    deMir tut alles weh. — MUIRIEL

  2. My head really aches.

    У мене дуже болить голова. — deniko

    ruУ меня очень болит голова. — sharptoothed

    deIch habe schlimme Kopfschmerzen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. My arms are aching.

    У мене болять руки. — deniko

    ruУ меня болят руки. — odexed

  4. Does your head ache?

    У тебе болить голова? — deniko

  5. She was aching all over.

    У неї все боліло. — deniko

    ruУ нее всё болело. — odexed

    deIhr tat alles weh. — Tamy

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
be in pain:
Русский
By meaning 1
be in pain:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
be in pain:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English aken (verb), and ache (noun), from Old English acan (verb) (

Inherited from Middle English aken (verb), and ache (noun), from Old English acan (verb) (from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to ache”)) and æċe (noun) (from Proto-West Germanic *aki, from Proto-Germanic *akiz), traditionally explained as from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂égos.

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Forms

aches, aching, ached, ached
Base formache · to ache
3rd person singularaches
Present participleaching
Past simpleached
Past participleached

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyache
he, she, itaches

Past simpleLesson

all personsached

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave ached
he, she, ithas ached

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill ache

Synonyms

25 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedaching
Derivedache for

Collocations

3 patterns
  • aching all over
  • aching all
  • head ached

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
ache — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto