ailing
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/
adj
- Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.
“She cared for her ailing brother day in, day out.”
“Based on the successful Class 59 but with a much more modern engine, what was to become the Class 66 was designed to replace much of the company's elderly and ailing locomotive fleet.”
noun
- An ailment.
“When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of ail