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pain vs ache

ache vs pain

pain and ache both are nouns.

pain and ache both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pain Yes No Yes No
ache Yes No Yes No
As nouns, ache is a hyponym of pain; that is, ache is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:
  • pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
  • ache: a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain
Other hyponyms of pain include aching, agony, excruciation, suffering, arthralgia, burn, burning, causalgia, colic, gripes, griping, intestinal colic, chest pain, chiralgia, distress, dysmenorrhea, glossalgia, glossodynia, growing pains, keratalgia, labor pain, mastalgia, melagra, meralgia, metralgia, myalgia, myodynia, nephralgia, neuralgia, neuralgy, odynophagia, orchidalgia, pang, pang, sting, photalgia, photophobia, costalgia, pleuralgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, proctalgia, referred pain, renal colic, smart, smarting, smartness, sting, stinging, stitch, rawness, soreness, tenderness, thermalgesia, throb, torment, torture, ulalgia, urodynia.
pain (noun) ache (noun)
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
pain (verb) ache (verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed have a desire for something or someone who is not present
cause emotional anguish or make miserable be the source of pain
feel physical pain
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