achy
Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈeɪ.ki/
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eɪ.ki
Adjective
With or suffering from aches; sore.
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More examples (2)
The achy path leads downhill, bump bump bump, rocks jagged and the climate wetter and colder, till I’m toothless, beyond pain, on a frosty skerry beach, my fingers numb, my lungs flapping like dead leaves.
Sora, his cinematographer, Bill Kirstein, and the composer Lia Ouyang Rusli capture the achy pleasures of youthful friendship and the tectonic frictions of the personal, the political and the geological.
Adjective
causing a dull and steady pain
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my aching head
her old achy joints
Word forms
achierachiestachey