Definitions for ailing

ailing ail·ing

Spelling: [ey-ling]
IPA: /ˈeɪ lɪŋ/

Ailing is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in ailing (agiiln).

Definitions for ailing

adjective

  1. sickly; unwell.
  2. unsound or troubled:

verb (used with object)

  1. to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.

verb (used without object)

  1. to be unwell; feel pain; be ill:

Origin of ailing

First recorded in 1590-1600; ail + -ing2

Examples for ailing

Then, on hearing that his mother was ailing, even in danger, he become serious and anxious.

The joy of the meeting was making them forget the ailing stranger.

He was decorated again and given the battlewagon of an ailing four-striper.

He was wonderful, with Laura Linney, as a burdened brother and sister looking after an ailing parent in The Savages (2007).

Recently, he slipped up to Kennebunkport, Maine, from London just to check in on George Bush, his ailing friend.

So perhaps it is time to ask—what other part of the body politic might be ailing?

Only many years later does his full story emerge, when the narrator returns from Paris to visit her ailing uncle.

At all events, she had for some time been ailing, and had finally been removed to the hospital.

He was, however, also caught up in the tumult of his ailing marriage to Ava Gardner.

She had been ailing for a month, and now she was down with a temperature.

Word Value for ailing
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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