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ailment

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ail·ment  (lmnt)
n.
A physical or mental disorder, especially a mild illness.
ailment
Noun
a slight illness
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.ailmentailment - 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)
Translations
Spanish ailment [ˈeɪlmənt] n → enfermedad f; achaque m
French ailment [ˈeɪlmənt] n → affection f
German ailment [ˈeɪlmənt] n → Leiden nt
Italian ailment [ˈeɪlmənt] n → indisposizione f
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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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