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ill-effect

ill-effect is the alternative form of ill effect.

Meaning of ill effect

Noun

ill effect (plural ill effects)

  1. (often, plural) A detrimental or harmful effect.
    • All B.R. pallet vans have been withdrawn for modification; it has been found that the springing has suffered serious ill-effects from the activities of heavy fork-lift trucks inside the vehicles....1961 July, “News in Brief”, in Trains Illustrated, page 392

Forms of ill-effect

pluralill-effects

Questions about ill-effect

What is ill-effect the alternative form of?
Ill-effect is the alternative form of ill effect.

Words near ill-effect in the dictionary

  1. ill-doer
  2. ill-doers
  3. ill-doing
  4. ill-doings
  5. ill-ease
  6. ill-effect
  7. ill-equipped
  8. ill-famed
  9. ill-fated
  10. ill-fatedly
  11. ill-fatedness

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