Ailment
['eɪlm(ə)nt] or ['elmənt]
Definition
(noun.) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining.
Checker: Rowena--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Disease, ail, illness, sickness, ailing, indisposition, malady, distemper, disorder, complaint.
Checked by Kenneth
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Complaint, sickness, illness, disease
ANT:Recovery, convalescence, sanity, health, robustness, vigor, salubriousness
SYN:Food, sustentation, nutriment, pabulum, victuals, provision, meat, sustenance,nourishment
ANT:Poison, bane, venom, starvation, exhaustion
Typist: Marcus
Examples
- I believe grief is, and always has been, my worst ailment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The ailment is not physical. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If you encourage servants in giving way to every little disagreeable feeling, and complaining of every little ailment, you'll have your hands full. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- One or two of the pensionnaires complained of headache, and in other respects seemed slightly to participate in Georgette's ailment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a good deal especially in mind. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His talk was to the same purpose as usual--all about himself and his ailments, his wonderful coins, and his matchless Rembrandt etchings. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In some of Henry's ailments I have nursed him--better, she said, than any woman could nurse. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They even sought for a substance that might effect all transmutations, and be for mankind a cur e for all ailments, even that of growing old. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This treatment may have answered with the early ailments of the Indians. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If I was one of the complaining sort, or ever made any fuss about my ailments, there would be some reason for it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Edison at sixty-three has a fine physique, and being free from serious ailments of any kind, should carry on the traditions of his long-lived ancestors as to a vigorous old age. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Désirée, suddenly cured of her ailments, wastogether with Fifine, packed off to Bonne-Maman, in the country, by way of precaution against infection. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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