Ail
verb
To be sick or have something physically wrong.
She's been ailing for a long time now.
Often appears as...
- be ailing
- ailing for a long time
verb
Cause trouble or pain to someone.
It ailed me to see her suffer like that.
Often appears as...
- cause pain
- bring trouble
verb
To be sick or have something physically wrong.
She's been ailing for a long time now.
Often appears as...
- be ailing
- ailing for a long time
verb
Cause trouble or pain to someone.
It ailed me to see her suffer like that.
Often appears as...
- cause pain
- bring trouble
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Health Context
Used when describing someone's health condition, mostly in a negative sense.
After the surgery, he seemed to ail more than before.
Pro Tip 2/3Longevity Issues
Often related to long-lasting health problems rather than temporary sickness.
Her grandmother ailed with arthritis for many years.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
Can imply a worrying or empathetic tone when discussing health.
It's clear the constant pain is ailing him deeply.
Pro Tip 1/3Health Context
Used when describing someone's health condition, mostly in a negative sense.
After the surgery, he seemed to ail more than before.
Pro Tip 2/3Longevity Issues
Often related to long-lasting health problems rather than temporary sickness.
Her grandmother ailed with arthritis for many years.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
Can imply a worrying or empathetic tone when discussing health.
It's clear the constant pain is ailing him deeply.
Pro Tip 1/3Health Context
Used when describing someone's health condition, mostly in a negative sense.
After the surgery, he seemed to ail more than before.
Pro Tip 2/3Longevity Issues
Often related to long-lasting health problems rather than temporary sickness.
Her grandmother ailed with arthritis for many years.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
Can imply a worrying or empathetic tone when discussing health.
It's clear the constant pain is ailing him deeply.
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How to make hard choices...
It might be between two careers -- artist and accountant -- or places to live -- the city or the country -- or even between two people to marry -- you could marry Betty or you could marry Lolita. Or it might be a choice about whether to have children, to have an ailing parent move in with you,
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Finding happiness in...
She went to Juarez to take care of an ailing aunt, and in the course of it, she began to discover what was happening to the murdered and disappeared women of Juarez. She gave up her life; she moved to Juarez. She started to write the stories which documented the disappeared women.
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Where is Africa in our...
a hundred of these have become effective and ethical political leaders who are contributing to peace and stability on the continent another hundred have contributed to finally in cures to some of Africa's most ailing health problems a thousand have become entrepreneurs and
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María Teresa Kumar: How...
and in doing so, exposed the real, deep socioeconomic and racial disparities that ail us, but because that was when Americans cast a ballot for the future that believes in addressing the climate crisis, that health care is a right, that racial inequities hinder us all.
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Laurie Garrett: What can...
You know way more than any of us. To say ahh, if this happens then we are going to have a pandemic? The moment that you see any evidence of serious human-to-human to transmission. Not just intimately between family members who took care of an ailing sister or brother,
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How one scientist took...
with part time jobs. Still, she had to leave school before completing her doctorate to provide for her ailing father and sister. Carson found part time work with the Bureau of Fisheries writing for a radio program on marine biology.
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Abraham Verghese: A...
to the physician who was trying to make a diagnosis. If you'll recall, prior to that time, no matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted,
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Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
this during the migration they sort of know if they really want you they don't have to go far and they'll catch something there'll be one slightly ailing wildebeest somewhere so she just went to go pounce upon some of the other
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How I unlearned...
participating in athletics and learning that the greater the performance on the field, the less the need to worry about the rules off it. It's hard to pin down any one specific ingredient of the many symptoms that ailed me.
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A circular economy for...
it is especially vulnerable to human activity, and we need to take care to protect them. So recently, I surveyed the literature to look at the river health around the world. And I fully expected to see ailing river health
Video examples
How to make hard choices...
It might be between two careers -- artist and accountant -- or places to live -- the city or the country -- or even between two people to marry -- you could marry Betty or you could marry Lolita. Or it might be a choice about whether to have children, to have an ailing parent move in with you,
Video examples
Finding happiness in...
She went to Juarez to take care of an ailing aunt, and in the course of it, she began to discover what was happening to the murdered and disappeared women of Juarez. She gave up her life; she moved to Juarez. She started to write the stories which documented the disappeared women.
Video examples
Where is Africa in our...
a hundred of these have become effective and ethical political leaders who are contributing to peace and stability on the continent another hundred have contributed to finally in cures to some of Africa's most ailing health problems a thousand have become entrepreneurs and
Video examples
María Teresa Kumar: How...
and in doing so, exposed the real, deep socioeconomic and racial disparities that ail us, but because that was when Americans cast a ballot for the future that believes in addressing the climate crisis, that health care is a right, that racial inequities hinder us all.
Video examples
Laurie Garrett: What can...
You know way more than any of us. To say ahh, if this happens then we are going to have a pandemic? The moment that you see any evidence of serious human-to-human to transmission. Not just intimately between family members who took care of an ailing sister or brother,
Video examples
How one scientist took...
with part time jobs. Still, she had to leave school before completing her doctorate to provide for her ailing father and sister. Carson found part time work with the Bureau of Fisheries writing for a radio program on marine biology.
Video examples
Abraham Verghese: A...
to the physician who was trying to make a diagnosis. If you'll recall, prior to that time, no matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
this during the migration they sort of know if they really want you they don't have to go far and they'll catch something there'll be one slightly ailing wildebeest somewhere so she just went to go pounce upon some of the other
Video examples
How I unlearned...
participating in athletics and learning that the greater the performance on the field, the less the need to worry about the rules off it. It's hard to pin down any one specific ingredient of the many symptoms that ailed me.
Video examples
A circular economy for...
it is especially vulnerable to human activity, and we need to take care to protect them. So recently, I surveyed the literature to look at the river health around the world. And I fully expected to see ailing river health
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Quote examples
Barack Obama
American President
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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Kim Reynolds
American Politician
In a small town, residents don't wait for the government or far-flung strangers to take care of their ailing neighbors; they do it themselves. When a farmer gets sick, the community drops everything to harvest his crops.
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Edward Conard
American Businessman
When all is said and done, you're either for investment and risk taking as a solution for what ails the economy, or you're against it. The real world offers no middle ground.
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Queen Victoria
British Royalty
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
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Kangana Ranaut
Indian Actress
My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.
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Eric Hoffer
American Writer
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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B. B. King
American Musician
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Pat Morita
Japanese Actor
I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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Robert Frost
American Poet
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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Henry Rollins
American Musician
Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
Quote examples
Barack Obama
American President
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
Quote examples
Kim Reynolds
American Politician
In a small town, residents don't wait for the government or far-flung strangers to take care of their ailing neighbors; they do it themselves. When a farmer gets sick, the community drops everything to harvest his crops.
Quote examples
Edward Conard
American Businessman
When all is said and done, you're either for investment and risk taking as a solution for what ails the economy, or you're against it. The real world offers no middle ground.
Quote examples
Queen Victoria
British Royalty
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Quote examples
Kangana Ranaut
Indian Actress
My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.
Quote examples
Eric Hoffer
American Writer
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
Quote examples
B. B. King
American Musician
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
Quote examples
Pat Morita
Japanese Actor
I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
Quote examples
Robert Frost
American Poet
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Quote examples
Henry Rollins
American Musician
Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
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