Aching

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Sore

Synonyms Sore, hurting, achy, pinching, bleeding, hurtful, agonizing, excruciating, detrimental, stinging, severe, pernicious, inflamed, raw, itching, festering, chafing, threatening, grievous, painful, damaging, swollen, injurious, nasty, afflictive, burning, torturous, nagging, harmful, cramping, deleterious, tender, noxious, smarting, prickling, pricking, enflamed, and wounding.

Weeping

Synonyms Weeping, heartbroken, grieving, bitter, anguished, sorry, crying, unhappy, plaintive, depressed, doleful, woeful, rueful, somber, bewailing, deploring, morbid, dolesome, groaning, disconsolate, darkening, keening, miserable, dispirited, inconsolable, despondent, woebegone, forlorn, brokenhearted, crestfallen, gloomy, gray, black, dirgelike, bawling, cheerless, sullen, wretched, low-spirited, comfortless, dismal, saturnine, triste, mournful, funeral, wailing, melancholy, sad, agonized, sorrowful, tearful, regretful, dolorous, lamentable, lugubrious, plangent, bemoaning, dark, bleak, funereal, bleeding, pathetic, suffering, moaning, downcast, elegiac, heartsick, dejected, moody, careworn, desolate, howling, heartsore, glum, grey, elegiacal, downhearted, low, piteous, morose, joyless, sombre, yammering, dreary, and pessimistic.

Hurting

Synonyms Hurting, tingling, paining, stinging, cramping, biting, festering, suffering, twinging, racking, agonizing, afflicting, torturing, anguishing, throbbing, swelling, smarting, bleeding, itching, burning, nagging, pounding, chafing, pinching, tormenting, twingeing, and harrowing.

Example Sentences

She sat down, her feet aching after the long walk.

His aching heart missed her more each day.

I have an aching back from lifting boxes.

The aching muscles reminded him of yesterday’s workout.

Her eyes were aching from too much screen time.

He held his aching arm gently.

She smiled through her aching sadness.

The cold made his fingers aching and stiff.

My legs are aching after the hike.

He rubbed his aching temples to ease the headache.