Ail

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To feel ill or have pain.
  • v. To cause physical or mental pain or uneasiness to; trouble. See Synonyms at trouble.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Painful; troublesome.
  • v. To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
  • v. To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
  • n. An ailment; trouble; illness.
  • n. The awn of barley or other types of corn.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown.
  • verb-intransitive. To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble.
  • n. Indisposition or morbid affection.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Painful; troublesome.
  • To affect with pain or uneasiness, either of body or of mind; trouble: used in relation to some uneasiness or affection whose cause is unknown: as, what ails the man?
  • To feel pain; be ill (usually in a slight degree); be unwell: now used chiefly in the present participle: as, he is ailing to-day.
  • n. Indisposition or morbid affection; ailment.
  • n. The beard of wheat, barley, etc., especially of barley: chiefly in the plural.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
  • n. aromatic bulb used as seasoning
  • v. be ill or unwell
  • Verb Form
    ailed    ailes    ailing    ails   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hurt    suffer   
    Cross Reference
    trouble   
    Form
    ailed    ailing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    trouble    affect    distress   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bayle    Braille    Dail    Dale    Gael    Gail    Galle    Gayle    Hale    Jarrell   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ain't    varit    Gae    ansmission    skel    komme    ust    shoud    mellem