Definitions
an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
Word origin
From Middle English sornes, sornesse, sarnesse, from Old English sārnes (“bodily pain; mental pain, affliction, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairanassī, equivalent to sore + -ness. Cognate with Scots sairness (“soreness”), Old Frisian sērnisse, sērnesse (“injury, lesion”), Middle Low German sêrnisse, sêrenisse (“wounding, injury, distress, need”).
Used in a sentence
“The salve made the soreness go away, but with the aches gone I suddenly noticed my other pains.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Aching feeling”8 letters
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