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What is the difference between ache and pain ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between ache and pain ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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- English (US)
ache - prolonged dull pain
pain - physical suffering
"I have had an ache in my back since last week."
"I felt a sharp pain in my side."
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- English (US)
ache - prolonged dull pain
pain - physical suffering
"I have had an ache in my back since last week."
"I felt a sharp pain in my side."
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An ache is a type of pain. It is milder, duller (less sharp), more constant like a soreness that takes awhile to fade. Sore muscles ache after exercise. A head can ache. An injury can ache as it slowly heals. A heart can ache when someone has lost someone and still misses them. It is a dull type of hurt, a deep kind, that stays for awhile.
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Pain can mean a lot of different kinds.
There is the kind of pain that aches (dull, and sore and lasting awhile).
There is the kind of pain that is sharp, feeling like knives cutting or jabbing or poking inside.
There is the kind of pain that is hot, like burning.
There is the kind of pain that is throbbing, pulsing, like waves that get stronger then less then stronger again, over and over.
There is the kind of the pain that is raw, like an open wound, exposed, sensitive and hurting.
So an "ache" is only one type of pain, but there are many other types of pain also.
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Ache is soreness. Toothache and headache ... pain is strong depending on your threshold .It is said to describe an oncoming cold or fever.or strenuous exertion I get aches and pains after working out at the gym.
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