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ache for someone or something and hurt for someone or something Fig. to desire someone or something very much. (So much that it "hurts.") Jim ached for the sight of Mary, whom he loved deeply. ache for somebody/something to feel desire or regret about someone or something I ache for home, the smell of bread baking, rain hitting the porch roof - even the smell of the hen house. We ache for the victims of war who have lost family, friends, and their homes. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I suppose that reach may have felt
like some act of infidelity to all she once knew,
and I wonder, too,
if she grieved for her grandmother then
as I ache for mine now. If you ache for the thrill of downhill racing but don't live
where it snows, forget sledding. Chronicling Sparling's sabbatical journey to Australia,
Indonesia, and Italy, Travelogue largely succeeds in transforming the
highly personal--the ailments, the ache for an absent loved one--into
the theatrical and universal. |
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