ailment

ail·ment (

nt)

A physical or mental disorder, especially a mild illness.

ailment [ˈeɪlmənt]

a slight but often persistent illness

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Noun

ailment - an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

complaint, ill

disorder, upset - a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"

pip - a minor nonspecific ailment

kinetosis, motion sickness - the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle

ailment

noun illness, disease, complaint, disorder, sickness, affliction, malady, infirmity, lurgy (informal) The pharmacist can assist you with the treatment of common ailments.

Translations

ailment [ˈeɪlmənt] N → enfermedad f, achaque m

ailment [ˈeɪlmənt] n → affection f

ailment

n → Gebrechen nt, → Leiden nt; minor ailments → leichte Beschwerden pl; inflation, a national ailment → die Inflation, eine nationale Krankheit; all his little ailments → all seine Wehwehchen

ailment [ˈeɪlmənt] n → malanno

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araroba
Cade
camphor ice
complaint
condition
crud
disease
disorder
Egritude
herbal medicine
horse balm
hypochondriasis
ill
illness
impairment
infirmity
juniper tar
kinetosis
Local affection

The new Friederichsbad is a very large and beautiful building, and in it one may have any sort of bath that has ever been invented, and with all the additions of herbs and drugs that his ailment may need or that the physician of the establishment may consider a useful thing to put into the water.

A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

"But he talked of flannel waistcoats," said Marianne; "and with me a flannel waistcoat is invariably connected with aches, cramps, rheumatisms, and every species of ailment that can afflict the old and the feeble.

Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context

From those visits to unsanitary Houndsley streets in search of Diamond, he had brought back not only a bad bargain in horse-flesh, but the further misfortune of some ailment which for a day or two had deemed mere depression and headache, but which got so much worse when he returned from his visit to Stone Court that, going into the dining-room, he threw himself on the sofa, and in answer to his mother's anxious question, said, "I feel very ill: I think you must send for Wrench.

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

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