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Ailment

//ˈeɪlmənt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.

    "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."

  2. 2
    an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining wordnet

Etymology

From ail + -ment.

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