ail
/eɪl/ · noun
Meaning
- An ailment; trouble; illness.
- To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
- To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
- Painful; troublesome.
- The awn of barley or other types of corn.
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