earache
- noun
- /ˈɪrˌeɪk/
- 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.
- Six weeks and four courses of antibiotics later, the earache comes back.
Examples
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When I was 11, I got this really weird earache that wouldn't go away.
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Six weeks and four courses of antibiotics later, the earache comes back.
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Was not his earache a sign of it, whatever it was?
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My face hurts and I got an earache.
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Last winter, our 6-year-old son had an earache.
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I'm pleased to say it worked and cleared up his earache overnight!
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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.
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After swimming in the pool, I developed a painful earache that lasted for hours.
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The child complained of an earache after catching a cold last week.
Synonyms
Pain in the ear, often from the middle or inner part
Antonyms
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.