ill
/ɪl/ noun C2- Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity. · Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.
- Harm or injury. · I wouldn't want you to do me ill.
- Evil; moral wrongfulness.
- A physical ailment; an illness. · I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.
- PCP, phencyclidine.
Plural ills
From the library
“Yes, as you see, neighbor Caderousse; and ready to be agreeable to you in any and every way,” replied Dantès, but ill-concealing his coldness under this cloak of civility.
“Meaning to say,” replied Dantès, with a smile which but ill-concealed his trouble, “that if I were not a captain——”
All I can say is, that if it be so, ’tis an ill turn, and well deserves to bring double evil on those who have projected it.”
A Fox seeing him said: “A fine Lion you are, to be frightened of a Mouse.” “’Tis not the Mouse I fear,” said the Lion; “I resent his familiarity and ill-breeding.”
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