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Aching

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Painful 84% connected

Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Painful 84% connected

Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Bellyache 76% connected

Pain in the bowels; colic.

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Cephalalgia 76% connected

Alt. of Cephalalgy

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Earache 76% connected

Ache or pain in the ear.

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Gastralgia 76% connected

Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.

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Headache 76% connected

Pain in the head; cephalalgia.

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Odontalgia 76% connected

Toothache.

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Otalgia 76% connected

Pain in the ear; earache.

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Toothache 76% connected

Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.

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Hurting 76% connected

of Hurt

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Pain 76% connected

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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Ache 74% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Ache 74% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Suffer 74% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Suffer 74% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 1

Ache 92% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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