Ache vs. Pain — What's the Difference?

A continuous or prolonged dull pain in a part of one's body

Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage." In medical diagnosis, pain is regarded as a symptom of an underlying condition.

Suffer from a continuous dull pain

Highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury

To suffer a dull, sustained pain.

Great care or trouble

To feel sympathy or compassion

Cause mental or physical pain to

To yearn or long

An unpleasant feeling occurring as a result of injury or disease, usually localized in some part of the body

A dull, steady pain.

Bodily suffering characterized by such feelings

A painful sorrow.

Mental or emotional suffering; distress.

A longing or desire.

An instance of this

To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.

Pains The pangs of childbirth.

To cause someone or something to suffer pain.

Pains Great care or effort

Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.

(Informal) A source of annoyance; a nuisance

(obsolete) parsley

To cause physical pain to; hurt

Rare spelling of aitch

To cause mental or emotional distress to

Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones."

An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.

To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed.

(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress

A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain

An annoying person or thing.

Feel physical pain;

Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

Have a desire for something or someone who is not present;

Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

Be the source of pain

Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

(transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.

(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

To feel pain; to hurt.

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.

Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain.

See Pains, labor, effort.

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.

To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents.

A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder;

Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid;

A somatic sensation of acute discomfort;

A bothersome annoying person;

Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness;

Cause bodily suffering to

Cause emotional anguish or make miserable;