Synonyms:
concern, worry, headache, vexation
Meaning: something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry"
Synonyms:
headache, head_ache, cephalalgia
Meaning: pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs
Usage examples
Every two days she had a headache.
At eight Rosy goes to bed with a headache.
A nice little headache or two would be so convenient to us!"
Princess Mary, foreseeing no end to this, rose first, and complaining of a headache began to say good night.
And when Grigory Vassilyevitch wakes up he is perfectly well after it, but Marfa Ignatyevna always has a headache from it.
Whether this clergyman had a toothache, or a headache, or a heavy load on his mind, I cannot say, but his reading was more lugubrious than the wind in an equinoctial gale.
One day, Amelia had a headache, and could not go upon some party of pleasure to which the two young people were invited: nothing could induce her friend to go without her.
And, best of all, there was no reaction: no splitting headache or shaky hand the next day, but just the calm, quiet, contented feeling that goes with the sense of having got completely rested up."
Prima facie, everything is sensation that comes to us through the senses: the sights we see, the sounds we hear, the smells we smell, and so on; also such things as headache or the feeling of muscular strain.
Then Diana went home with a headache and Anne went with another to the east gable, where she stayed until Marilla came home from the post office at sunset, with a letter from Priscilla, written the day before.