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earache

earache

6 1.3
Pain inside the ear that can be sharp or dull
  • noun
  • /ˈɪrˌeɪk/
translation icon : dolor de oído
  • A service user complaining of earache and a slight loss of hearing after flu presented at the walk-in center.
  • earache pain
  • get an earache
  • bad earache

Six weeks and four courses of antibiotics later, the earache comes back.

Examples

  • When I was 11, I got this really weird earache that wouldn't go away.

  • Six weeks and four courses of antibiotics later, the earache comes back.

  • Was not his earache a sign of it, whatever it was?

    Fiction book (1998)
  • My face hurts and I got an earache.

  • Last winter, our 6-year-old son had an earache.

    Blog text (11)
  • I'm pleased to say it worked and cleared up his earache overnight!

    Blog text (11)
  • Recently, one of my four-year-old twins was complaining of an earache, so I put two drops of the garlic-mullein oil.

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  • She called the doctor because her son was crying from an earache during the night.

  • After swimming in the pool, I developed a painful earache that lasted for hours.

  • The child complained of an earache after catching a cold last week.

Synonyms

otalgia
vsearache
  • Specialized
9.9

Pain in the ear, often from the middle or inner part

includes milder discomfort as well as clear pain

Antonyms

440 1.0

A feeling of comfort when pain or worry goes away

190 1.0

A feeling of physical ease and being free from pain

How Severe

perforated eardrum
  • Specialized
6.3
myringitis
  • Specialized
1 9.9
earache
6 1.3

Surface Forms

earache singular
earaches plural

Morphology

earache = ear + ache (transparent) = ear + ache

Clear compound of 'ear' + 'ache' meaning pain in the ear; the meaning follows directly from the parts.

Etymology

Earache comes from the simple parts ear and ache, and ache means 'pain'. So earache literally means 'ear pain', that is, pain inside the ear.