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backache
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Word definitions for backache in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After a few days I started to develop backache in the lumbar region so acute that I could hardly move. ▪ After a month or two the backache had eased, leaving me with sciatica. ▪ As my father remembers the story, the backache ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. any pain or ache in the back
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an ache localized in the back
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
backache \back"ache\ n. an ache localized in the back.
Usage examples of backache.
It warmed and the warmth spread through her also, so that the last of that backaching fatigue was banished.
The symptoms were prostration, sleeplessness, exhaustion, over-fatigue from mental trouble, overstudy and anxiety, indigestion, dyspepsia, constipation, headache, inability to concentrate the mind, general lassitude, melancholia, backache and pains from the top of my head to the sole of my feet.
I find my health still good, having no aches nor pains, a splendid appetite, sleep well, no headache, no backache and no womb trouble.
She has so many varieties of headache,--sometimes as if Jael were driving the nail that killed Sisera into her temples,--sometimes letting her work with half her brain while the other half throbs as if it would go to pieces,--sometimes tightening round the brows as if her cap-band were a ring of iron,--and then her neuralgias, and her backaches, and her fits of depression, in which she thinks she is nothing and less than nothing, and those paroxysms which men speak slightingly of as hysterical,--convulsions, that is all, only not commonly fatal ones, --so many trials which belong to her fine and mobile structure,--that she is always entitled to pity, when she is placed in conditions which develop her nervous tendencies.
I could teach him a good deal about headaches and backaches and all sorts of nervous revolutions, as the doctor says the French women call their tantrums.
They just go on and on, beans today, peas tomorrow, sometimes a day off, more often not, the same backaches, same fields, same highways over and over and over.
His first name is Jonas, and he is a housepainter by trade, but he seldom feels like doing any painting, as he claims he never really recovers from a terrible backache he gets when he is in the Spanish-American War with the First New York, so Miss Alicia Deering supports him by dealing them off her arm in the Commercial Hotel.
I had a low-grade headache from the terminal noise and the tedium and I had a backache from an hour of carrying the tote on my shoulder.
Three days of thirst, sore feet, and backache had taken much of the glamor out of his plans, and the sight of that empty road was the pebble that sank the barge.
Minor complaints - a few common colds, an ulcerated tooth, a couple of backaches, occasional upset stomachs, one sprained ankle, and that had been all.
The pool instantly turned brown-black and unpleasantly pungent, but the French-speaking attendant made Beck understand that the formic acid in the multitude of little ant corpses, plus the turpentine they had absorbed from living in a pine forest, was far more efficacious than reliance on mere miracles for easing rheumatism, lumbago, muscle strain and backache.
The next few months were supposed to be filled with glowing skin and a renewed sense of peace, and yeah, okay, maybe an occasional backache or twinge of a sciatic nerve.