Ailing

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ

Full definition of ailing

Noun

1. An ailment.
• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 5, 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

1. Present participle of ail

Adjective

1. Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

Anagrams

• nilgai