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ache for (someone or something)

1. To feel a strong desire for someone or something. She ached for the companionship of her husband when he was deployed overseas. I know you ache for love now, but, trust me, having a boyfriend isn't all that great. I wish I had more time to myself, honestly! Mary Kate is so insecure—she must ache constantly for validation from other people.
2. To feel profound sadness or empathy for someone. I ache for those little children who just lost their parents in a car accident. I can't sit through that commercial with the sick kids because just makes me ache for them. The funeral was incredibly sad. We ache for the whole family.
See also: ache, for

bellyache

1. verb To complain or gripe about someone or something. Of course Marjorie is bellyaching about how I left dishes out in the kitchen—she's not happy unless everything is perfectly put away. I turned the thermostat up, so you all can stop bellyaching about how cold it is in here, thanks. Grandpa is bellyaching about local politics, what else is new? It seems he hates the new mayor just as much as the old one.
2. noun Pain in one's stomach. I've had a bellyache all day, so I'm going to have to cancel our dinner plans. Tina says she has a bellyache, and I think she's just nervous about her first day of school. Dave had a bellyache, so he went to lie down.

bottleache

slang Ill health caused by a hangover or alcohol withdrawal. If he just stops drinking all of a sudden, without medical supervision, he's liable to suffer from bottleache. I woke up with the worst bottleache of my life. We all came in with bottleache the day after the staff Christmas party, so no one was really working too hard.
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ache for someone or something

 and hurt for someone or something
Fig. to desire someone or something very much. (So much that it "hurts.") Jim ached for the sight of Mary, whom he loved deeply.
See also: ache, for
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

bellyache

(ˈbɛli ek)
1. n. a stomachache. Oh, mama, do I have a bellyache!
2. in. to complain. You are always bellyaching!

bottleache

(ˈbɑdlæek)
n. a hangover; the delirium tremens. I got a touch of the bottleache this morning.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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AChE activity is therefore widely used in biomonitoring studies as a biomarker of OP pesticide exposure.
Effect of an Organophosphate Insecticide Diazinon on the Activity of Acetylcholinesterase and Lipid Peroxidation of a Common Carp, Cyprinus Carpio L
The effect of pH and temperature for purified AChE was determined by measuring the enzyme activities at the different pH using an overlapping buffer system consisting of acetate buffer (pH 4 to 6), potassium phosphate buffer (pH 6 to 8) and Tris-Cl (pH 7 to 9) and temperatures (15 to80C) for 10 min and enzyme activity was assayed withATC as previously described.
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