as in sore
causing or feeling bodily pain
unable to play in tomorrow's football game because of an achy right knee
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Recent Examples of achy
There are many reasons your child's stomach might be feeling queasy or achy.
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Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 31 Oct. 2024
Here’s how to tell what might be behind the achy tightness—and what to do about it to feel better, fast.
—Christa Sgobba, SELF, 7 Jan. 2025
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This 99.9% pure copper bracelet can help with achy muscles, tension, stress, and other health issues.
—Veronica Booth, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
The mostly Millennial demographic was not in the mood to mosh or jump, perhaps due to achy knees and work in the morning.
—Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Nov. 2024
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Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 31 Oct. 2024
Here’s how to tell what might be behind the achy tightness—and what to do about it to feel better, fast.
—Christa Sgobba, SELF, 7 Jan. 2025
Find it on Amazon Healing and Stylish Copper Bracelet
This 99.9% pure copper bracelet can help with achy muscles, tension, stress, and other health issues.
—Veronica Booth, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
The mostly Millennial demographic was not in the mood to mosh or jump, perhaps due to achy knees and work in the morning.
—Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for achy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for achy
Adjective
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Each set has two pre-spoons ideal for purées, doubling as a teether for sore gums, and an open-channel spoon for gripping to soft solids.—
Nora Colomer,
Fox News,
8 Feb. 2025
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In the series finale, Belle arrives late to Milla’s funeral, sticking out like a sore thumb amid friends and family burdened by genuine grief.—
Erin Jensen,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Somebody Somewhere is tiny: a gorgeous, introspective, intimate story about a woman with devastatingly mundane problems whose chief obstacle is her own aching sense of grief and dislocation.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
9 Dec. 2024
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In this novel about the shape-shifting nature of love, Parsons captures Kit’s grief in aching and honest terms.—
Annabel Gutterman,
TIME,
6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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An ultimate taboo, disclosing the impulse to kill one's child must be an unthinkably painful admission.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
16 Feb. 2025
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Watching De Zerbi trying to use a threadbare squad last season was painful at times.—
Andy Naylor,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Achy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/achy. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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