Word.ws English Dictionary

ailed

/eɪld/

ailed is the simple past and past participle of ail.

Meaning of ail

Verb

ail (third-person singular simple present ails, present participle ailing, simple past and past participle ailed)

  1. (transitive) To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
    • Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.
  2. (intransitive) To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
    • When he ails ever so little […] he is so peevish.1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

See all 5 meanings of ail

Words that rhyme with ailed

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about ailed

What is ailed the simple past and past participle of?
Ailed is the simple past and past participle of ail.
How do you pronounce ailed?
Ailed is pronounced /eɪld/.

Words near ailed in the dictionary

  1. ailantus
  2. ailantuses
  3. Ailao toad
  4. ailavator
  5. ailavators
  6. ailed
  7. Aileen
  8. ailer
  9. aileron
  10. aileron authority
  11. aileron roll

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ailed (page history and authors); ail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ailed.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ailed. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.