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View synonyms for ailing

ailing

[ ey-ling ]

adjective

  1. sickly; unwell.
  2. unsound or troubled:

    a financially ailing corporation.



ailing

/ ˈeɪlɪŋ /

adjective

  1. unwell or unsuccessful
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ailing1

First recorded in 1590–1600; ail + -ing 2
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Example Sentences

They were presumably brought down and sacrificed in ATM to help garner favor for a possibly ailing community.

And the rising star still standing just might be in the best position to offer some elixir to our deeply ailing political system.

He was, however, also caught up in the tumult of his ailing marriage to Ava Gardner.

He was wonderful, with Laura Linney, as a burdened brother and sister looking after an ailing parent in The Savages (2007).

Boosting spending and undoing a chunk of the sequester is likely to have a bigger impact on the still-ailing job market.

There was nothing wonderful about that, for Dick had heard quite recently that he was an ailing man, and not likely to live long.

Strange to say it did not take her by surprise; she told me that the girl had been ailing for several years.

He had been ailing for several weeks; as his son had remarked, his handwriting had been the first symptom of the breakdown.

He came home to find his father ailing, and on 2nd December 1469, Piero de' Medici died.

Philosophers and men of letters, when they are ailing, meet with no such pleasant attentions nowadays!

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