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Answer for the clue "Vexing situation ", 8 letters:
headache

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Word definitions for headache in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A pain or ache in the head. 2 (figurative) A nuisance or unpleasant problem.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English heafodece ; see head (n.) + ache (n.). Colloquial sense of "troublesome problem" is first recorded 1934.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Headache " is a single written and performed by Frank Black . It was the sole released single from his second solo album Teenager of the Year , released in 1994. It reached number 53 on the UK charts and number 10 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks. Co-produced ...

Usage examples of headache.

The juice of the root is very acrid when sniffed up the nostrils, and causes a copious flow of water therefrom, thus giving marked relief for obstinate congestive headache of a dull, passive sort.

Persons of a lymphatic or bilious temperament often find that coffee disagrees with them, aggravating their troubles and causing biliousness, constipation, and headache, while tea proves agreeable and beneficial.

She rose hastily, and after she had begged an acquaintance to tell Alette and Harald that a mere headache compelled her to leave the dance, she hurried by the wood-path back to Semb.

And in the afternoon we went for a row on the river, pulling easily up the anabranch and floating down with the stream under the shade of the river timber--instead of going to sleep and waking up helpless and soaked in perspiration, to find the women with headaches, as many do on Christmas Day in Australia.

Due to which, I just took a departmentally approved blocker for the amazing headache.

The air was breathable, but the ammonia in it would give them all headaches.

Its bruised fresh leaves, if applied, will relieve local pains and headache.

They left their room early in the morning, and at noon Don Diego came to dine with me, saying his daughter had such a bad headache that she had not even gone to mass.

I had awakened only this morning, ill, miserable, with a splitting headache, chained with the other girls.

A procession worked its way forward through the throng, presbyters cloaked in silken cloaks, clerics swinging thuribles as the smoke of frankincense rose in stinging clouds, giving Liath a headache.

Sick Headache, Bilious Headache, Dizziness, Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of the stomach and bowels, are promptly relieved and permanently cured by the use of Dr.

With a dejectedness to which it is possible that his headache contributed he put the matter squarely to himself.

Nylan said, one hand massaging the back of his neck, hoping that easing the tightness would help his headache.

Perhaps it would help Talut, she thought, though from the sound of his complaints she wondered if the preparation of ergot she made for particularly bad headaches might be better.

She stepped back from him and leaned a hip against the desk as she dug a prescription bottle of ergotamine out of her briefcase, fished out one tablet, and washed it down with Pepsi to ward off the headache that was sinking its talons into her forehead.