ailment

  • 11ailment — [[t]e͟ɪlmənt[/t]] ailments N COUNT An ailment is an illness, especially one that is not very serious. The pharmacist can assist you with the treatment of common ailments. Syn: affliction …

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  • 12ailment — noun a common stomach ailment Syn: illness, disease, sickness, disorder, condition, affliction, malady, complaint, infirmity; informal bug, virus …

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  • 13ailment — /ˈeɪlmənt/ (say aylmuhnt) noun a morbid affection of the body or mind; indisposition: a slight ailment …

  • 14ailment — A disease; sickness, indisposition; morbid affection of the body; not ordinarily applied to acute diseases. McDermott v Modern Woodmen of America, 97 Mo App 636, 654, 71 SW 833. See personal ailment …

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  • 15ailment — noun Date: 1703 1. a bodily disorder or chronic disease 2. unrest, uneasiness …

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  • 16ailment — /ayl meuhnt/, n. a physical disorder or illness, esp. of a minor or chronic nature. [1700 10; AIL + MENT] * * * …

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  • 17ailment — noun Something which ails one; a disease; sickness …

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  • 18ailment — ail·ment ā(ə)l mənt n a bodily disorder or chronic disease * * * ail·ment (ālґmənt) any disease or affection of the body, usually referring to slight or mild disorder …

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  • 19ailment — Synonyms and related words: abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, complaint, complication,… …

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  • 20ailment — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. disease, illness, malady. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. disease, illness, sickness, infirmity; see disease . See Synonym Study at disease . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. illness, malady, affliction. see …

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