Meaning

1 senses
  1. Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.

    Near-synonym: complaint (contextually synonymous)

    Leiden

    боле́зньboléznʹ, неду́гnedúg, нездоро́вьеnezdoróvʹje

More definitions
  • an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

Examples

23 sentences
  1. Their ailment, they alone experience it.

  2. Her ailment, she alone experiences it.

  3. My ailment, nobody else possesses it.

  4. I am afflicted with grave ailments.

  5. All my ailments are gone but one.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
something which ails one; a disease; sickness:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
something which ails one; a disease; sickness:

Forms

plural: ailments
Singularailment
Pluralailments

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining:complaintill

Word family

2 related words
Relatedail

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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