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Meanings of ailment in English
An injury, disorder or disease that causes physical or mental suffering to the affected person or animal.
Synonyms
Examples for "ill"
Examples for "ill"
1
Commission powers to enforce content decisions are ill-defined and subject to challenge.
2
Powerful professional interests, with widespread but ultimately ill-informed public support, held sway.
3
A new report has highlighted the link between domestic violence and ill-health.
4
The idea is simple: to prevent torture or ill-treatment before it happens.
5
Beyond that seems less clear; his role in this team remains ill-defined.
1
The case follows a complaint lodged by the opposition nine years ago.
2
The indicators include food safety, patient and staff satisfaction and complaint resolution.
3
The case related to a complaint made by a patient last year.
4
Her complaint was a civil matter, not a police issue, they said.
5
September 2011: Architect Steve Lawrence submits State Aid complaint to European Commission.
Usage of ailment in English
1
Officials in Seoul said that despite his ailment, Kim remained in control.
2
All the students are aware of the fatal nature of their ailment.
3
And yet, as recently as autumn, his only noticeable ailment was arthritis.
4
It could be some other type of ailment or disability, I allowed.
5
I hinted that I'd suffered some minor female ailment that required surgery.
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I dare communicate no ailment to Papa; his anxiety harasses me inexpressibly.
7
He learned from two doctors that he had an incurable heart ailment.
8
That this ailment lasted six months is proved from 1 Kings ii.
9
That is very possibly the likely ailment we've got in our hazelnuts.
10
The doctor diagnoses it as an occupational ailment and calls corned-beef knee.
11
Bridgewater is back after missing one game due to an ankle ailment.
12
Hookworm was the second most common ailment, with cancer and miscarriages frequent.
13
Arafat died in a Paris hospital in 2004 of an undisclosed ailment.
14
One day he came to me and complained of a chronic ailment.
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The ailment he speaks of consisted, I believe, of a severe cold.
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He had been stricken by a severe ailment and was pitifully weak.
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Ailment through the time
Ailment across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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