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单词 ailing
释义

ailing

adjective

ail·​ing ˈā-liŋ How to pronounce ailing (audio)
: having or suffering from an illness or injury
providing care for his ailing mother
trying to rest her ailing knee/back
a person in ailing health
often used figuratively
an ailing companyan ailing economy

Synonyms

  • invalid
  • sickly
  • weakly
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Multiple rumors about the queen’s ailing health—and false alarms about her death—were fueled by social media. Chris Stokel-walker, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022 China Evergrande Group, the ailing real estate giant that has fallen behind on a payment to international bondholders, rose more than 4%. Will Horner, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2021 Additionally, two years ago Horizon launched a variety of caregiver support groups and created a Care@Work program to help staffers with ailing family members evaluate home care providers and receive coaching. Diane Herbst, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022 But there is a lack of reliable research into how technology affects the brain, and a shortage of funding to help ailing teens cope. New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022 The process is usually used for elderly or ailing witnesses who may not be able to testify at trial. Andrew Dalton, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022 Judge had first alerted her followers to Bronx's ailing health on Sunday, posting to Twitter a picture of the pooch lying in a veterinarian's office. Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE.com, 4 July 2022 Krull left Chicago in 2020 to care for an ailing relative and is no longer handling the Kelly case. Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022 But if Benedict opted out, and severe disease left John Paul II with no choice but to put his ailing front and center, Francis is purposefully, and incessantly, trying to reshape modern society to be more hospitable to the old. New York Times, 28 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

from present participle of ail entry 1

First Known Use

1598, in the meaning defined above

ailing 1 of 2

adjective

1
as in dying
chronically or repeatedly suffering from poor health when his ailing wife had to go to a nursing home, he visited her every day

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • dying
  • fragile
  • sickly
  • frail
  • sick
  • weak
  • invalid
  • weakly
  • feeble
  • bedridden
  • fading
  • moribund
  • debilitated
  • weakened
  • lame
  • ill
  • enfeebled
  • decrepit
  • incapacitated
  • infirm
  • delicate
  • bedfast
  • incurable
  • challenged
  • unwell
  • poorly
  • indisposed
  • worn-out
  • unhealthy
  • unsound
  • run-down
  • peaked

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • healthy
  • well
  • whole
  • hale
  • wholesome
  • fit
  • sound
  • hearty
  • able-bodied
  • well-conditioned
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2
as in sick
temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body he was ailing from some sort of infection in his eye that made it look all red and puffy

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • sick
  • poorly
  • ill
  • bad
  • down
  • unwell
  • shaky
  • weak
  • indisposed
  • troubled
  • unhealthy
  • dizzy
  • unsound
  • sickened
  • punk
  • fragile
  • run-down
  • peaky
  • disabled
  • symptomatic
  • diseased
  • afflicted
  • under the weather
  • peaked
  • out of sorts
  • feeble
  • decrepit
  • debilitated
  • lame
  • frail
  • infirm
  • sickly
  • lousy
  • achy
  • incapacitated
  • seedy
  • sickish
  • woozy
  • feverish
  • airsick
  • queasy
  • cruddy
  • disordered
  • nauseous
  • seasick
  • squeamish
  • challenged
  • nauseated
  • weakly
  • hypochondriacal
  • invalid
  • hypochondriac
  • halt
  • qualmish
  • carsick
  • queazy
  • light-headed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • whole
  • healthy
  • well
  • healthful
  • wholesome
  • sound
  • hale
  • fit
  • cured
  • recovering
  • better
  • conditioned
  • mending
  • improved
  • convalescing
  • recuperating
  • stalwart
  • able-bodied
  • hardy
  • strong
  • flourishing
  • tough
  • well-conditioned
  • thriving
  • lusty
  • hearty
  • robust
  • rugged
  • blooming
  • rehabilitated
  • bouncing
  • flush
  • chipper
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ailing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of ail
as in bothering
to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy parents who were at a loss to explain what was ailing their normally vivacious daughter

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • bothering
  • concerning
  • alarming
  • distracting
  • plaguing
  • disturbing
  • worrying
  • agitating
  • angering
  • distressing
  • unsettling
  • haunting
  • upsetting
  • annoying
  • irritating
  • discomforting
  • perturbing
  • derailing
  • unhinging
  • undoing
  • exercising
  • disquieting
  • aggravating
  • dismaying
  • rattling
  • discomposing
  • exasperating
  • embarrassing
  • confusing
  • hagriding
  • frazzling
  • vexing
  • bedeviling
  • distempering
  • fussing
  • pestering
  • bugging
  • irking
  • nettling
  • harassing
  • harrying
  • alaruming
  • discouraging
  • weirding out
  • getting
  • fretting
  • flurrying
  • riling
  • freaking (out)
  • chafing
  • piquing
  • chivying
  • galling
  • confounding
  • grating
  • mortifying
  • chivvying
  • putting off
  • dispiriting
  • peeving
  • disconcerting
  • jarring
  • putting out
  • discomfiting
  • flustering
  • demoralizing
  • disheartening
  • unnerving
  • daunting
  • fazing
  • discountenancing
  • nonplussing
  • shaking up
  • abashing
  • nonplusing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • soothing
  • settling
  • quieting
  • alleviating
  • composing
  • calming
  • assuaging
  • tranquilizing
  • allaying
  • tranquillizing
  • appeasing
  • mollifying
  • placating
  • pacifying
  • propitiating
  • conciliating
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