Definition of "aching" []

• Dully painful. (adjective)
• Full of painful yearning or sorrow: an aching heart. (adjective)

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• ""No craving void left aching in the breast") _an aching void_; and the nephew, Dr. Arthur Aikin, by way of variety, _a void aching_; whilst Mrs. Barbault he designated as _that pleonasm of nakedness_; since, as if it were not enough to be _bare_, she was also"
• ""No doubt your shoulder is aching from the shooting," he said."
• "And by the way … Belly aching is sooo not attractive! —"