ake
Americanverb (used without object)
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On February 4, Miyasaka once again declared an "open sea" or "ake no umi", meaning little chance one would appear before spring.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
The frightening idea really began to ake hold on June 24, 1947.
From Time Magazine Archive
The course was supposed to ake five years, but Medina tossed it off in three.
From Time Magazine Archive
I turn me wholly to ye, And talk now till thy tongue ake, I will hear ye.
From Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by Francis Beaumont
Then had we none but reredosses; and our heads did never ake.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand
Questions that are overly broad and subject to a wide variety of meanings, depending upon who is aked produce utterly meaningless information.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2018
I never saw a better sight in my life; I laughed, till my sides aked, to see how the knaves scampered.
From The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
She told me this Afternoon that her Stomach aked; and was complaining Yesterday at Dinner of something that stuck in her Teeth.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
Then she's gi'ed him a little bane-knife, And frae her sark he cut a share; She's ty'd it round his whey-white face, But ay his head it aked mair.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
Whereat the people laughed exceedingly: some rejoyced marvellously at the remembrance thereof, some held their stomackes that aked with joy, but every man delighted at this passing sport, so passed out of the theatre.
From The Golden Asse by William Adlington
Some speculate that Daly and Semel were not unhappy to see Fuchs -- the one company official assigned to respond publicly to Dole's attack -- aking all the corporate heat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh! my aking Brain is near Distraction; For much I fear there is no Help for me.
From The Stolen Heiress or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted by Susanna Centlivre
Ang sagot nang bilango ay ito; akoy ualang kapatid, ni pamangkin ni amain, ni nuno, ni apo, ni kahit kaibigan; ngungit ang ama nang tawong iyan, ay anak nang anak nang aking ama.
From A Little Book of Filipino Riddles by Frederick Starr
Many's the tumbil I've ad, and the aking boans I've suffered from, though I was grinnin in the Park or laffin at the Opra.
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
We shouldn’t forgit one thing, that thare iz not a single fee simple on this futstool; even the best tooth in our hed may fall tew aking before sunset and hav tew be jerked out.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
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