headachenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈhed.eɪk/us/ˈhed.eɪk/headache noun [ C ] (PAIN)
A2 a pain you feel inside your head:
I've got a splitting (= severe) headache.
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- I tried taking tablets for the headache but they didn't have any effect.
- It's an extremely effective cure for a headache.
- I had a terrible headache, but even so I went to the concert.
- She didn't want to go out, so she faked a headache.
- He's got a headache and a slight fever.
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Headaches & dizziness
- dizziness
- dizzy
- dizzying
- giddy
- hangover
- headachy
- hungover
- light-headed
- migraine
- muzzy
- sick headache
- spin
- splitting
- swim
- thumping
- tinnitus
- vertiginous
- vertigo
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headache noun [ C ] (DIFFICULTY)
something that causes you great difficulty and worry:
Finding a babysitter for Saturday evening will be a major headache.
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Difficult things and people
- a (heavy) cross to bear idiom
- a bitter pill (to swallow) idiom
- a hard/tough nut to crack idiom
- albatross
- bane
- chill
- equation
- handicap
- hiccup
- hot potato
- impediment
- job
- labyrinth
- liability
- nut
- the chill wind of sth idiom
- the hard way idiom
- the sharp end
- the/a devil of a sth idiom
- thorn in your flesh/side idiom
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