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ailings

/ˈeɪ.lɪŋz/

ailings is the plural of ailing.

Meaning of ailing

Noun

ailing (plural ailings)

  1. An ailment.
    • When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

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Questions about ailings

What is ailings the plural of?
Ailings is the plural of ailing.
How do you pronounce ailings?
Ailings is pronounced /ˈeɪ.lɪŋz/.

Words near ailings in the dictionary

  1. ailevators
  2. Ailie
  3. ailihphilia
  4. ailin'
  5. ailing
  6. ailings
  7. Ailish
  8. aillt
  9. aillts
  10. Ailly-sur-Noye
  11. ailment

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