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English
Etymology
From Middle English unaken, equivalent to un- + ache.
Verb
unache (third-person singular simple present unaches, present participle unaching, simple past and past participle unached)
- (transitive, intransitive, rare) To relieve from pain; soothe
1967, Worlds of If, volume 17, number 3, page 52:We ate and we drank and we decided to rest our bruised selves that afternoon. We were in the twilight world now, walking where no man had ever walked before, and we felt ourselves to be golden. It was good to stretch out and try to unache.
1999, Niall Duthie, Lobster Moth, page 21:Slowly I slide my right hand under the pillow (I sleep on the right, window side) and push my left hand palm up along my thigh — a limp parody of a swimmer's crawl — and I begin to unache, from shoulder through to hand, from thigh down to feet, my back.
2017, Henry Woodiss, George Dalrymple, Woodiss Waits:This last summer, though, though I hobbled round like a ninety-year-old, I felt I was on the mend; my leg would unstiffen and my back unache, and I'd be my old self.
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