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発音

• IPA: /ˈeɪlmənt/

名詞

ailment (plural ailments)

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

   Near-synonym: complaint (contextually synonymous)

   • 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.

派生語

• status ailment

Further reading

• “ailment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ailment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• aliment, maltine, netmail