Crossword clues for ail
ail
- Need a sawbones
- Feel yucky
- Feel far from fine
- Come down with something
- Catch the flu
- Be not up to par
- Be miserable
- Be bothered by
- Take to the sickbed
- Suffer symptoms
- Suffer some
- Suffer pain
- Suffer from sickness
- Sneeze, cough, etc
- Run a temperature, say
- Require doctoring, e.g
- Not feel so hot
- Need a sick day
- Need a nurse
- Need a G.P
- Lose vigor
- Have the vapors
- Have the sniffles
- Have the flu, perhaps
- Have the blahs
- Have something wrong
- Have health issues
- Have an illness
- Have a health problem
- Have a headache
- Have a cold, perhaps
- Have a cold, maybe
- Have a bad case of something
- Give trouble to
- Get a grippe
- Garlic, to Gerard
- Garlic, to Gaston
- Feel wretched
- Feel terrible
- Feel punky
- Feel like garbage
- Feel less than 100%
- Feel indisposed
- Feel down
- Fare poorly
- Cough and sneeze, say
- Confine to bed, maybe
- Cause distress to
- Bring pain to
- Be poorly
- Be down with something
- We sick
- Suffer from the flu, for example
- Suffer from allergies, say
- Suffer from a sickness
- Suffer from a disease
- Suffer discomfort
- Run a fever, perhaps
- Require Tylenol, say
- Require treatment, perhaps
- Require rest, maybe
- Require meds, maybe
- Require medication
- Require curing
- Require bed rest, perhaps
- Require a sick day
- Not feel too hot
- Not feel one's best
- Not feel 100%
- Not do so well
- Need to take a sick day
- Need to see a doctor, maybe
- Need meds, perhaps
- Need curing
- Need care
- Need bed rest
- Need a tonic
- Look peaked
- Lack one's usual vitality, maybe
- Homophone of a pub drink
- Have the flu, for example
- Have the flu, e.g
- Have pain
- Have chills, say
- Have chills, perhaps
- Have caught something
- Have a nasty bug, say
- Have a hangover, perhaps
- Have a fever, say
- Have a bug, say
- Get the flu
- Get feverish
- Garlic, to Genevieve
- Garlic, to Gagne
- Garlic, in Gentilly
- Garlic, in Gaspe
- Garlic, in Gananoque
- Fight a cold, say
- Feel poor
- Feel peaked
- Feel miserable
- Feel like staying in bed
- Feel less than perfect
- Feel feverish, maybe
- Feel distress
- Feel crappy
- Feel bum
- Feel blah
- Come down with a bug
- Catch that bug
- Catch a virus, say
- Be under par?
- Be unable to come in, say
- Be the trouble with
- Be out, perhaps
- Be out of health
- Be on the disabled list, say
- Be off one's feed
- Be in bad shape
- Be hurting
- Be hung over, e.g
- Be home sick
- Be green around the gills
- Be down with a bug
- Be abed
- Affect badly
- 'ard rain?
- Need a doctor's care
- Trouble, afflict
- Be under the weather
- Distress
- Be unwell
- Suffer, as from the flu
- Have it bad?
- Have a bug, maybe
- Plague
- Afflict — feel unwell
- Be bedridden, say
- Be sickly
- Be in a bad way
- Be near bankruptcy
- Do poorly
- Be in bed, maybe
- Not do well?
- Feel sickly
- Have problems
- Be laid up in bed
- Be distressed
- Feel awful
- Hurt
- Feel lousy
- Lie in bed, say
- Feel queasy, e.g.
- Not feel oneself
- Feel bad
- Not fare well
- Feel fluish
- Have the flu, maybe
- Be indisposed
- Have miseries
- Bother greatly
- Have something to complain about
- Feel low
- Be in misery
- Feel ill
- Feel feverish, perhaps
- Be hung over, e.g.
- Not be well
- Be under par, healthwise
- Need nursing, say
- Feel under the weather
- Not feel so good
- Feel unwell
- Be moribund, say
- Languish in bed
- Feel off
- Be 3-Down
- Run a fever, say
- Not feel well
- Aromatic bulb used as seasoning
- Gallic garlic
- Be in the grip of la grippe
- Garlic, in Grenoble
- Have the miseries
- Have the flu, say
- Ache all over (3)
- Feel poorly
- Be valetudinarian
- Sicken
- Homophone for a libation
- Be ill
- Be bedbound
- Pain
- Homophone for 124 Down
- Feel out of sorts
- Have headaches, say
- Have the pip
- Feel discomfort
- Be out of sorts
- Have aches and pains
- Homophone for ale
- Feel pain, perhaps
- Incur coryza
- Affict
- Be in trouble
- Need a G.P.
- Ache all over
- Feel below par
- Miss France leaves upset
- Worry, hearing mention of alcoholic drink
- Regular occurrences of racial trouble
- Beer reportedly makes you sicken
- Become sick of beer, say
- Have a cold, say
- Trouble: every other part falling off rapidly
- Require rest, perhaps
- Be off, in a way
- Feel crummy
- Be in pain
- Need medical attention
- Affect adversely
- Be troubled
- Feel under par
- Feel malaise, e.g
- Take to one's bed
- Feel queasy, e.g
- Be in poor health
- Have a fever, e.g
- Feel rotten
- Catch a bug, say
- Become sick
- Suffer illness
- Require nursing, e.g
- Require nursing
- Cause to suffer
- Catch something
- Catch a bug?
- Be less than 100 percent
- Suffer somewhat
- Need aspirin
- Have what's going around
- Have what's "going around"
- Have something the matter
- Have a malady
- Feel unsound
- Cause trouble to
- Be less than healthy
- Be in need of a sick day
- Be down with the flu
- Be below par
- Suffer ill health
- Run a temperature
- Need to see a doctor, perhaps
- Need medicine
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ail \Ail\ ([=a]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ailed ([=a]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Ailing.] [OE. eilen, ailen, AS. eglan to trouble, pain; akin to Goth. us-agljan to distress, agls troublesome, irksome, aglo, aglitha, pain, and prob. to E. awe. [root]3.] To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man? I know not what ails him.
What aileth thee, Hagar?
--Gen. xxi.
17.
Note: It is never used to express a specific disease. We do not say, a fever ails him; but, something ails him.
Ail \Ail\, v. i. To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble.
When he ails ever so little . . . he is so peevish.
--Richardson.
Ail \Ail\, n.
Indisposition or morbid affection.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old English eglan "to trouble, plague, afflict," from Proto-Germanic *azljaz (cognates: Old English egle "hideous, loathsome, troublesome, painful;" Gothic agls "shameful, disgraceful," agliþa "distress, affliction, hardship," us-agljan "to oppress, afflict"), from PIE *agh-lo-, suffixed form of root *agh- (1) "to be depressed, be afraid." Related: Ailed; ailing; ails.\n\nIt is remarkable, that this word is never used but with some indefinite term, or the word no thing; as What ails him? ... Thus we never say, a fever ails him.
[Johnson]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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(context obsolete English) painful; troublesome. Etymology 2
n. An ailment; trouble; illness. v
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1 (context transitive English) To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.) 2 (context intransitive English) To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled. Etymology 3
n. The awn of barley or other types of corn.
WordNet
n. aromatic bulb used as seasoning [syn: garlic]
Wikipedia
Ail or AIL may refer to:
- Ail (health), a state of poor health
- Ail (Sailor Moon), a character in the Sailor Moon anime series
- Automotive Industries Limited, a motor vehicle manufacturer of Israel
- American Income Life Insurance Company, a life insurance company in America
- Dylan Ail Don, a night god in Welsh mythology
- ail, a rare name for garlic (ail is French for garlic)
- Abnormal Indivisible Loads, a term used for oversized road transport
- All-Ireland League (rugby union)
- ail, code for Aimele language of Papua New Guinea
- Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (disambiguation), various research institutes
- Accademia Italiana di Lingua (disambiguation), Italian Language and Culture Association
Usage examples of "ail".
That was ail they would allow themselves until they were back across the border and out of danger.
Bundesgrenzschutz a force of West German riot police who guard airports, embassies and the border and an elderly Englishman in a curious nautical uniform worn by the British Frontier Service, which acts as guides for ail British army patrols on land, air and river.
I wonder if you would be so kind as to stroll with me to the royal stables now, while all is quiet there, and perhaps advise me on what might ail him?
So ail that was left was to shut them down the hard way, by brute force.
Apparently overcoming whatever had previously ailed it, the computer began to download Tituss mail.
Even Signora Strega-Borgia had joined in, apparently overcoming whatever it was that had ailed her and devouring course after course of Tituss birthday banquet, badly prepared by Marie Bain and surreptitiously adjusted by Mrs McLachlan.
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.