Definitions for ails

ails ail

Spelling: [eyl]
IPA: /eɪl/

Ails is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in ails (ails).

Definitions for ails

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 ails

before 950; Middle English ail, eilen, Old English eglan to afflict (cognate with Middle Low German egelen annoy, Gothic -agljan), derivative of egle painful; akin to Gothic agls shameful, Sa

Examples for ails

What ails Mignon that he should be looking at his wife in that severe way?

The child sobbed dreadfully, and could scarcely say, "I do not know what ails my mother."

A libertarian foreign policy is the only cure for what ails us abroad.

In the long run, taking the pain now might just be the best medicine for the rot of hyper-partisanship that ails our body politic.

If America is fortunate, the economy will continue to improve, while the 2016 campaign will focus on what ails the country.

Why—it never can be that—old Butterby—Arthur, what ails you?

Let's take a look in that clump of bushes and see who is there, and what ails him.

I never knew you so sharp on a neighbour, Honor, before:—what ails ye?

From The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What ails You by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin.

John Avlon on the rot of hyper-partisanship that ails our body politic.

Word Value for ails
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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