verb
- Be ill or unwell.
- synonyms: ail
- Cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed.
adjective
- Somewhat ill or prone to illness.
- usage: "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"
- synonyms: indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy
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