Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In New Zealand, a small tree, Dodonæa viscosa, of the soapberry family, with very hard variegated wood.
- noun In the Chatham Islands, a small tree, Shawia Traversii (Olearia Traversii of Hooker), of the aster family.
- See
ache .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
ache .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
forever - verb Archaic spelling of
ache .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet Pepys did not shake their company; instead he went with the rogues to supper in an arbour, though it made his heart "ake" to listen to their mad talk.
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A 'o nā konohiki hana' ole pēlā a ke'ake'a paha i ke a'o
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A 'o nā konohiki hana' ole pēlā a ke'ake'a paha i ke a'o
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A 'o nā konohiki hana' ole pēlā a ke'ake'a paha i ke a'o 'ana a ke kumu, ua hemo ia konohiki. "
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A 'o nā konohiki hana' ole pēlā a ke'ake'a paha i ke a'o 'ana a ke kumu, ua hemo ia konohiki. "
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The results showed that when a sound occurs at the same time the ball is struck, participants are slower to react and m ake "significantly more decision errors regarding the direction of the ball."
Week in Ideas 2010
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Someone please tell Palin-No-Brains no one really cares what she considers evil or not evil, in fact less than 25% of Americans could care less if she could never talk again and could never call 'Anything' evil again, in my opinion the only thing evil is the 'anti-christ' Palin, after all Christ was a man, would it n ot m ake sense the anti-christ were a woman?
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We should all be praying that Greenspan doesn't ake his marching orders from the New York Times, like most Democrats do.
Bernanke on the Jobless Recovery, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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[T] ake a look at a new report issued by the Department of Homeland Security that says right-wing extremism is on the rise throughout the country.
The Tea Party Treason and Plot | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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While the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords seems like a teachable moment, there remains the vexing question of how to t ake advantage of this.
Bob Burnett: Is the Giffords' Shooting a Teachable Moment? Bob Burnett 2011
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