unache

present singular third person unaches · participle present unaching · participle past unached · past unached

1. ambitransitiverareTo relieve from pain; soothe

   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.

   2017, Henry Woodiss, George Dalrymple, Woodiss Waits

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   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.

   1967, Worlds of If, volume 17, number 3, page 52

   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.

   1999, Niall Duthie, Lobster Moth, page 21