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ailing en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.
    • She cared for her ailing brother day in, day out.
    • 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. 2021 February 24, “Fleet News: Class 66 history”, in RAIL, number 925, page 27:

Forms

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most ailing Degree=Sup lexicographic
more ailing Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

nonailing · unailing

Translations (35)

id celomes (sick) · it sofferente (sick) · eo malsana (sick) · fr malade (sick) · oc malaut (sick) · de leidend (sick) · de dahinsiechend (sick) · de angeschlagen (sick) · pt enfermo (sick) · de notleidend (sick) · fr malsain (sick) · et põdur (sick) · mi ngātoro (sick) · de kränkelnd (sick) · is vesall (sick) · fi raihnas (sick) · nl ziek (sick) · pt doente (sick) · es enfermito (sick) · es achacoso (sick) · de kränklich (sick) · ca malalt (sick) · de marode (sick) · it malato (sick) · sq sëmurë (sick) · de krank (sick) · id gering (sick) · id merana (sick) · izh läsivä (sick) · mi haumate (sick) · et haiglane (sick) · io malada (sick) · mi taimaha (sick) · mi oke (sick) · es enfermo (sick)

ailing en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. An ailment.
    • 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. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

Forms

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ailings Number=Plur lexicographic

ailing en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of ail
    form of ail