noun
definition
An ailment; trouble; illness.
verb
definition
To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
example
Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.
definition
To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
Examples of ail in a Sentence
The Chilean peon, however, comes from a hardy stock, and has borne ail strip of territory west of the Andes, but also a large piece of the Patagonian mainland, south of lat.
I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail.
If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even--for that is the seat of sympathy--he forthwith sets about reforming--the world.
Ail the larger rivers, except the Gumti, as well as most of the smaller streams, have beds hardly sunk below the general level; and in time of floods they burst through their banks and carve out new channels.