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
We perhaps have a few relics of tar as a comparative suffix; I E uk increase whence Old Sax agen our again; Mand age, Dak ake again, Dak akton more than.
From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by Williamson, A. W. (Andrew Woods)
"And cramm'd them till their guts did ake With caudle, custard, and plumcake."
From Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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 Radcliffe, Ann Ward
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 Addison, Joseph
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
Dioclesian in his garden found more repose than on the imperial seat of Rome, and the nob of Charles the Fifth aked seldomer under a monk's cowl than under the diadem.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
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
"Why grow up a Boob," wrote the philosophic Mayme, "when the lil old world is full of wise guys just aking to spill their wiseness?"
From From a Bench in Our Square by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Pinagsakitan kong aking matuklasan ang bagay na isang ninais makamtan at nang sa pagkita ay hindi mapalaran tinaglay-taglay ko hangang kamatayan.
From A Little Book of Filipino Riddles by Starr, Frederick
A cruel uncle and an injured lover, will be always present to my aking sight.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Bayle, Pierre
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 Starr, Frederick
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