Usually means: Painful, persistent sensation in body.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. ache: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ache: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ache: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ache: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ache: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ache, ache: Wordnik
  7. ache: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ache, ache: Wiktionary
  9. ache: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ache: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ache: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ACHE: Dictionary.com
  13. ache (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ache: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ACHE, Ache (album), Ache: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ache: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ache: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ache: Rhymezone
  19. ache: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ache: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ACHE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. ache: Free Dictionary
  23. ache: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ache: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. ache: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ache: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ache: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AChE (acetylcholinesterase): MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Ache: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. AChE: Medical dictionary
  6. AChE (acetylcholinesterase): Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ACHE: Acronym Finder
  2. ache: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ache: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ache: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See ached as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, stative) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
verb:  (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
noun:  Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
noun:  (obsolete or historical) Parsley.
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.]
noun:  (biochemistry) Abbreviation of acetylcholinesterase. [(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine into choline and acetic acid.]

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