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Ailing

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈeɪ.lɪŋ

Definitions

An ailment.

Equivalents

9 more languages
العربيةالمرض
Catalàmalalt
Esperantomalsana
Bahasa Indonesiageringmerana
Nederlandsziek
Portuguêsdoenteenfermo

Examples

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.”

CEFR level

C2
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