Dictionary Entry
ail
ail is a 3-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 4 · 6 senses
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- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble.
- 3noun
Indisposition or morbid affection.
- 4noun
aromatic bulb used as seasoning
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- 5verb
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- 6verb
be ill or unwell
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