ailing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Noun
ailing (plural ailings)
- An ailment.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- 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.
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Verb
ailing
- present participle of ail
Adjective
ailing (comparative more ailing, superlative most ailing)
- Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.
- She cared for her ailing brother day in, day out.
- 2021 February 24, “Fleet News: Class 66 history”, in RAIL, number 925, page 27:
- Based on the successful Class 59 but with a much more modern engine, what was to become the Class 66 was designed to replace much of the company's elderly and ailing locomotive fleet.
Translations
sick
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Anagrams
- Gilani, nilgai