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ailment

[eyl-muhnt]

noun

  1. a physical disorder or illness, especially of a minor or chronic nature.



ailment

/ ˈɪəԳ /

noun

  1. a slight but often persistent illness

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ailment1

First recorded in 1700–10; ail + -ment
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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.

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Though he’d been addled by the ailment, he understood that his son had managed to preserve the family business.

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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.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy both suffered serious, chronic ailments that were kept well away from the public eye.

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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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