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verb (used with object)
1.
to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
verb (used without object)
2.
to be unwell; feel pain; be ill: He's been ailing for some time.
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Example Sentences
- Program, for the first time describes and maps every known reef and gives detailed evidence of the things that ail them.
- He would probably be in ail except that the only real witness against him is also a crook and a liar.
- Another fact you ail to demonstrate is how the wealthy somehow get rich on the back of the poor.
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Word Origin & History
ail
O.E. eglian "to trouble, plague, afflict," from P.Gmc. *azljaz (cf. O.E. egle "hideous, loathsome, troublesome, painful;" Goth. agls "shameful, disgraceful," agliþa "distress, affliction, hardship," us-agljan "to oppress, afflict"), from PIE *agh-lo-, suffixed form of base *agh- "to be depressed,
EXPANDbe afraid." Related: Ailing (c.1600); ailment formed in Eng. 1706.
COLLAPSE
"It is remarkable, that this word is never used but with some indefinite term, or the word no thing; as What ails him? ... Thus we never say, a fever ails him." [Johnson]
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