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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ailing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
weak/ailing/depressed
▪ The economy is weak and consumer confidence is low.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He's taking care of his ailing mother.
▪ Smith transformed GM's ailing European operations in the '80s.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It also owns an insurance company, Fata, and has a stake in an ailing private bank.
▪ It can repair the shattered beliefs and, sometimes, the ailing soul of an organization gone awry.
▪ It may also come to the rescue of ailing banks.
▪ Later in marriage a particularly keen sense of commitment may be felt towards aged or ailing parents.
▪ Puppies will herd hens in a farmyard, just as a pack of wolves will encircle an ailing prey.
▪ The government is trying to boost the ailing economy by converting the defence industry to civilian production.
▪ The traveller, we now discover, is a young man whose ailing parents want him to stay within reach.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ailing

ailing \ailing\ adj. sick; unhealthy. Opposite of well or healthy.

Syn: indisposed, peaked(predicate), poorly(predicate), sickly, unwell.

Wiktionary
ailing

  1. sickly; sick; ill; unwell. n. An ailment. v

  2. (present participle of ail English)

WordNet
ailing

adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather]

Usage examples of "ailing".

When George bought an ailing company it immediately recovered its strength.

She has helped birth many babes, has saved many ailing mothers after difficult births and has never turned anyone away seeking help.

Band-Aids, and the ailing plant Jenks had rescued from the half-price rack in the tiny floral department.

Jenks had put his ailing plant on the table, and it was looking better already.

The ailing vampire met my eyes, clearly wanting to talk to me, but DeLavine took his other arm in a show of concern born from memory, not love, and escorted him to the door.

From the corner of my sight I watched Nick leave the bathroom, looking like the ailing vampire who was sitting beside me, trying to attract anyone in an apron.

Though he had been ailing for years, as has been stated, yet his wonderful energy of mind made it appear to many that there was no immediate danger of his life.

Alarm changed to resignation, and more and more Doc Daneeka acquired the look of an ailing rodent.

So preoccupied was she with her ailing employer that she failed to notice when Damp hauled a large golf umbrella out of the stand by the door and started to wave it purposefully around.

His stubbornness became more and more a form of personal courage: this ailing man would not let go.

She and Lou had fled to a corner of the cafeteria behind the ailing ailanthus, the bad joke of the company.

On a burning evening in May I rode out beyond the city gates along the banks of the Orontes to meet the small group so worn by anxiety, fever, and fatigue: the ailing emperor, Attianus, and the women.

Roman era my task consisted of stifling the revolt in Judaea and bringing back from the Orient, without too great loss, an ailing army.

Moored to her bed, the ailing Lina Greff could neither escape nor leave me, for her ailment, though chronic, was not serious enough to snatch Lina, my teacher Lina, away from me prematurely.

Mark leading the way, they rounded still another corner, brushing past nurses and candy stripers, meditative interns and the aimlessly ambling, dull-eyed relatives of the ailing.