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
But, oh, here comes up something that makes my very back ake!
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton
The old Fellow shall live till he makes his Heart ake, I can tell him that for his pains.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
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
But i kept in, and aked with glory.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
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 Mary Lamb
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
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
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
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
It strikes an awe And terror on my aking sight.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore
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
My aking and confused Head warns me to leave off.—With a muddled sense of gratefulness, which I shall apprehend more clearly to-morrow, I remain, your friend unseen,
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
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