Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
Used in a Sentence
aches
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for aches.
Editorial note
When anything awesome comes to our life we forget about stomach aches, spine aches or mental aches and feel the drive.
Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of aches gathered in one view.
A language spoken by the Yi people of South-Western China.
Rare spelling of aitch. [The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.]
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for aches.
noun
Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
noun
A language spoken by the Yi people of South-Western China.
noun
Rare spelling of aitch. [The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.]
verb
(intransitive, stative) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
Example sentences
When anything awesome comes to our life we forget about stomach aches, spine aches or mental aches and feel the drive.
Olive oil is still often used to clean out ear wax (which does cause intense ear aches).
It aches, it throbs, there’s nothing there, and yet you never want it to go away.
Rust is not a panacea, even if it does cure some of your aches and pains.
No wonder why this is everywhere: The hungry white ape aches in the ancient canyon.
The weight training has really helped with the little aches and pains that start to pile up as you get older and fatter.
My heart also aches at the state of affairs in intellectual property law.
Within a few hours of treatment those ear-aches would disappear completely.
I think it is the smallest of the head-aches that a web developer faces.
All my aches and pains went away that day.
My dad tried it and got bone/joint aches.
Spending 8 to 10 hours standing can do a number on your body, especially if you’re not used to physical activity, and that can cause new aches and pains.
Quote examples
Do you think I'm doing the uninformed public a favor if I go around yelling: "Vaccines frequently cause fever, pain around the injection site, and muscle aches.
How likely is someone with “body aches, headache and nausea, general weakness, and prostration” to make it to the polls, to school, or to work?
I liked pkgng, the "compactness" of the OS and several other features and after I successfully installed Xfce and Mate I decided to give FreeBSD a try on the bare metal, to see how it performs compared to Ubuntu and how many devices will recognize of the various devices (especially the Broadcom wifi which gave me some head aches under linux) on my Lenovo Yoga 2 11.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use aches in a sentence?
When anything awesome comes to our life we forget about stomach aches, spine aches or mental aches and feel the drive.
What does aches mean?
Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
What part of speech is aches?
aches is commonly used as noun, verb.