Word Finder - ill

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(often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.

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Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.

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Harm or injury.

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I wouldn't want you to do me ill.

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Evil; moral wrongfulness.

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A physical ailment; an illness.

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I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.

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PCP, phencyclidine.

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Evil; wicked (of people).

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Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.

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Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.

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He suffered from ill treatment.

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Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.

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ill manners; ill will

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Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.

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I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.

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Having an urge to vomit.

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Seeing those pictures made me ill.

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(hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.

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Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.

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That band was ill.

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Unwise; not a good idea.

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Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.

She felt ill after all Jule told her.

My people never fall ill, and those who are injured, heal.

His mother was very ill and she recently passed away.

Are you feeling ill?

The count is very, very ill, and you must not see him at all.

His piercing gaze made her feel slightly ill.

When she returned, looking ashen, he was sure she had been ill.

Just the thought made Deidre feel ill.

They both suffered the same physical discomforts, yet did not feel ill.

Ill health is proved by i.

The most interesting room in the palace is Philip II.'s cell, from which through an opening in the wall he could see the celebration of mass while too ill to leave his bed.

It was not so much the value of Tacna and Arica that put difficulties in the way of a settlement as the fact that the national pride of the Peruvians ill brooked the idea of permanently losing all claim to this section of country.

The ripple of his flesh made her feel ill.

His final poem is about forbidden love, but he is too ill to write it down.

She didn't expect it to happen as it did, and the accusation of slaughtering a thousand lives made her feel ill.

We shall suppose they did it upon great consideration and weighing of the matter, and it would be very strange and very ill if we should disturb and set aside what has been the course for a long series of times and ages."

In the middle of September he was seriously ill.

Edgar Mortara, when between five and six years of age, fell ill.

His friend Chanut fell dangerously ill; and Descartes, who devoted himself to attend in the sick-room, was obliged to issue from it every morning in the chill northern air of January, and spend an hour in the palace library.

He then returned to Bavaria, and his absence bringing him into ill odour at Vienna, he complained of the incompetence of the council of commerce and dedicated a tract on trade (CommercienTractat) to the emperor Leopold.

The doctrinal differences came to a head in the trials of George Duffield (1832), Lyman Beecher (1835) and Albert Barnes (1836) which, however, resulted in the acquittal of the accused, but which increased friction and ill feeling.

Gray, who had fallen ill, died on the r6th of April.

Things looked ill for the patriots, and Zeeland Smpuatninisyh.

But the circumstances of the country at his accession were ill adapted for liberal developments.

Nine days later, while lying ill at his home at Washington, he was attacked by one Lewis Powell, alias Payne, a fellow-conspirator of John Wilkes Booth, at the same time that Lincoln was assassinated.

On his recovery he set out on a military expedition, but at the end of the first day's march he fell ill, and had to stay at Spoleto and return to Assisi.

Podébrad, who had gained the throne of Bohemia with the aid of the Hussites and Utraquists, had long been in ill odour at Rome, and in 1465 Pope Paul II.

The relations between the new emperor and the pope were ill defined; and this proved the source of infinite disasters to Italy and Europe in the sequel.

The associated nobles proved ill neighbors to the peaceable citizens.

The only gleam of success which shone on his ill fortune was the revolution which placed Florence in the hands of the Ghibellines in 1248.

The duke Antonio Farnese acreS died ill 1731; the grand-duke Gian Gastone de Medici died in 737.

Green calls this king, had not, however, given up the struggle, and he was still in the field when he was taken ill, dying in Newark castle on the 19th of October 1216.

The scheme did ill; and in 1796 the government put an end to it, owing to the great mortality and the embarrassments of maintenance.

C. Druce's younger son and executor, for having sworn that he had seen his father die ill 1864.

The detailed description of Constantinople and the Byzantine court is a document of rare value - though highly coloured by his ill reception and offended dignity.

Between Roberval and Descartes there existed a feeling of ill - will, owing to the jealousy aroused in the mind of the former by the criticism which Descartes offered to some of the methods employed by him and by Pierre de Fermat; and this led him to criticize and oppose the analytical methods which Descartes introduced into geometry about this time.

The wood of the hornbeam is white and close-grained, and polishes ill, is of considerable tenacity and little flexibility, and is extremely tough and hard to work - whence, according to Gerard, the name of the tree.

Simon's wife now fell ill, and on the 19th of January 1794 the Simons left the Temple, after securing a receipt for the safe transfer of their prisoner, who was declared to be in good health.

The Spaniards in the centre behaved very ill, and no victory was gained.

But soon after his return to Florence he fell ill.

Josephus 7 paraphrases the story more suo, and speaks of Balaam as the best prophet of his time, but with a disposition ill adapted to resist temptation.

The ill fate of the Howards seemed to be appeased by the death of Philip, earl of Arundel.

When his father was sent as minister to Great Britain in 1825 he accompanied him as secretary of the American legation, and when his father returned home on account of ill health he remained as charge d'affaires until August 1826.

He was adjutant-general of New York state in 1839-1843, and became a brigadier-general of volunteers in the Union army in 1861, commanded a division in Virginia in 1862-1863, and, being compelled by ill health to resign from the army, was U.S. minister to the Papal States in 1863-1867.

But his good fortune did not last, and he attributes the calamities that came upon him to the ill will which his bold maintenance of justice had caused, and to his opposition to every oppressive measure.

This secrecy, combined with the fact that the judges were very ill paid, led to universal bribery and corruption.

His son and successor, Theodore (Feodor), was a weak man of saintly character, very ill fitted to consolidate his father's work and maintain order among the ambitious, turbulent nobles; but he had the good fortune to have an energetic brother-in-law, with no pretensions to sanctity, called Boris Godunov, who was able, with the tsar's moral support, to keep his fellow-boyars in order.

To accomplish such a feat it was necessary, of course, to expend large sums of money; and as the country could ill bear an increase of taxation, the whole financial system had to be improved and the natural resources of the country had to be developed.

Bobadilla, sent for to Rome, arrived there just before Mascarenhas was about to depart, but fell too ill to respond to the call made on him.

It was probably about this time that Æthelred fell ill, and the Norwegians and Danes from Ireland unsuccessfully besieged Chester.