The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word ACHY
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More clues leading to the result ACHY
- Painful phase of tachycardia
- Companion comes in always feeling pained
- Sore about hotel charging indeed!
- Church to go in a year? That's hurtful
- Oh to hold centre-half in persistent pain
- Feeling pain from a chain applied to tip of willy
- Painful absorbing criticism, holding your heads
- Agreed to hug children in pain
- Suffering from pain every single year bar the first
- Teach yourself? Involves feeling some pain
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What does ACHY mean?
ACHY adjective- Suffering from aches, sore.