Usually means: To suffer from physical illness.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word ail:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. ail: Merriam-Webster
  2. ail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ail, ail: Wordnik
  7. ail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ail: Wiktionary
  9. ail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ail: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ail: Dictionary.com
  13. ail: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ail: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ail (Sailor Moon), Ail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ail: Rhymezone
  19. Ail, ail (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ail: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ail: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. ail: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. ail: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paris Cookbook (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com French Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ail: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ail: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ail: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. AIL: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. AIL: Acronym Finder
  4. AIL: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. ail: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ail: HYPP Zoology

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ail: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ailed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
verb:  (intransitive) To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
noun:  (obsolete) An ailment; trouble; illness.
adjective:  (obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
noun:  The awn of barley or other types of corn.

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