ail
IPA: ˈeɪɫ
noun
- (obsolete) An ailment; trouble; illness.
- The awn of barley or other types of corn.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
- (intransitive) To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
adjective
- (obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
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Examples of "ail" in Sentences
- The actor has been ailing from cancer.
- The company was ailing and heavily in debt.
- The trouble with the ailing sound is twofold.
- The accident caused ailing pain to the victims.
- The man ailed the little with impure intentions.
- The tremendous work of load started to ail them.
- They should not have ailed the innocent children.
- The teacher ailed the students with igniting remarks.
- The ailing composer was too sick to attend the premiere.
- It compares the life of an old woman to that of an ailing bird.
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