migraine
migraine — noun
1. A very painful form of headache. It can also make you feel sick, throw up, or ha
A very painful form of headache. It can also make you feel sick, throw up, or have trouble seeing clearly. The pain is often strong and beating and may affect only one side.
Liang felt a bad migraine coming on during the afternoon meeting.
feel + a migraine + coming on for describing the onset
The bright screen triggered a migraine that ruined Camila's entire evening.
trigger + a migraine for a common cause
Noor was diagnosed with chronic migraine after months of severe headaches and nausea.
The new tablets reduced how often Jude got migraines each month.
Felipe left the restaurant early when a migraine hit, with pounding pain, nausea, and coloured spots in his vision.
- headache
A general term for any pain in the head. Migraine is a specific, much more severe type that includes nausea and vision problems.
文法句型
have + a migraine
suffer from + migraines
migraine + noun (e.g. migraine attack, migraine sufferer)
用法筆記
Can be used as an uncountable noun when referring to the medical condition in general ('She suffers from migraine'), or as a countable noun when referring to a specific attack ('I had a migraine yesterday').