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ailment
[eyl-muhnt]
noun
a physical disorder or illness, especially of a minor or chronic nature.
ailment
/ ˈɪəԳ /
noun
a slight but often persistent illness
Example Sentences
He lived by the maxim that "a hot curry or a paracetamol" would cure all ailments - and "if that didn't work you, you just got on with it," according to his daughter, Tracy Fisher.
Though he’d been addled by the ailment, he understood that his son had managed to preserve the family business.
He ended up on the island of Kyushu, where he stumbled upon an enzyme bath center where people of different ages and ailments had come to heal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy both suffered serious, chronic ailments that were kept well away from the public eye.
People are not happy about canceling grants to come up with cures for cancer and heart disease and other ailments that touch so many American families.
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