- to have or suffer a continuous, dull pain: His whole body ached.
- to feel great sympathy, pity, or the like: Her heart ached for the starving animals.
- to feel eager; yearn; long: She ached to be the champion. He's just aching to get even.
- a continuous, dull pain (in contrast to a sharp, sudden, or sporadic pain).
- to feel, suffer, or be the source of a continuous dull pain
- to suffer mental anguish
- a continuous dull pain
