ailment (noun)

  • 111health — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Physical wellbeing Nouns 1. health, healthiness; mental health, sanity; soundness; vim, vigor, and vitality; strength, robustness; bloom, prime; mens sana in corpore sano; hygeia; clean bill of health;… …

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  • 112miserable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wretched, forlorn, doleful; mean, contemptible, paltry. See unimportance. Ant., happy, wealthy. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In misery] Syn. distressed, afflicted, sickly, ill, wretched, sick, ailing …

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  • 113trouble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. affliction, distress, misfortune, adversity, calamity; disorder, unrest; difficulty; pains, exertion, effort, anxiety, perturbation, sorrow, worry. v. disturb, disquiet, perturb; annoy, molest, harass …

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  • 114affliction — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. suffering, pain, distress, trouble, misfortune, tribulation, trial, hardship, adversity, misery, wretchedness, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, ailment, infirmity, sickness, disease, disorder, grief, woe, sorrow, care,… …

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  • 115suffering — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. distress, misery, affliction; see difficulty 1 , 2 , pain 2 , distress . See Synonym Study at distress . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. pain, misery, agony, torture, torment, ache, distress, grief, depression, heartache,… …

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  • 116athlete — early 15c., from L. athleta a wrestler, athlete, combatant in public games, from Gk. athletes prizefighter, contestant in the games, agent noun from athlein to contest for a prize, related to athlos a contest and athlon a prize, of unknown origin …

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  • 117complaint — late 14c., lamentation, grief, from O.Fr. complainte (12c.) complaint, lament, noun use of fem. pp. of complaindre (see COMPLAIN (Cf. complain)). Meaning bodily ailment is from 1705 (often in U.S. colloquial use generalized as complaints) …

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  • 118get — verb (gets, getting; past got; past participle got, N. Amer. or archaic gotten) 1》 come to have or hold; receive.     ↘experience, suffer, or be afflicted with (something bad). 2》 succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain. 3》 move… …

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  • 119prognosis — [prɒg nəʊsɪs] noun (plural prognoses si:z) a forecast, especially of the likely course of a disease or ailment. Origin C17: via late L. from Gk prognōsis, from pro before + gignōskein know …

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  • 120suffer — verb 1》 experience or be subjected to (something bad or unpleasant).     ↘(suffer from) be affected by or subject to (an illness or ailment).     ↘become or appear worse in quality.     ↘archaic undergo martyrdom or execution. 2》 archaic tolerate …

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