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 ailed in a Sentence
Martha came in with baby Clair looking as if she'd gotten over what ailed her.
These legends should perhaps be interpreted as pointing to a black snake ailed muss being those most dreaded.
To an exterior in these early years somewhat heavy and uncouth, he united a manner which, by universal testimony, was irresistibly winning, with a fund of genuine but simple humour and fun that would break out on the most unlikely occasions, and in after years enabled him to overcome difficulties and mellow refractory chiefs when all other methods f ailed.
She built a castle of great beauty and magnificence, ti ailed the Achilleion, in the island of Corfu, where she often o fsided.