ailment

From ail +‎ -ment

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪlmənt/

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ailment (plural ailments)

1. Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:

     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.

• ailment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ailment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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