Ailment

Pronunciation

Origin

From ail + -ment

Full definition of ailment

Noun

1. Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
• 1922, w, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days Chapter 2/9/1, He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

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• aliment