ailing — English Dictionary

Noun

1. An ailment.

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   When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

Adjective

1. Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

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   She cared for her ailing brother day in, day out.

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   Based on the successful Class 59 but with a much more modern engine, what was to become the Class 66 was designed to replace much of the company's elderly and ailing locomotive fleet.

Adjective

1. somewhat ill or prone to illness

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   indisposedpeakedpoorlysicklyunwellunder the weatherseedy

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   my poor ailing grandmother

   feeling a bit indisposed today

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   you look a little peaked

   feeling poorly

   a sickly child

   is unwell and can't come to work