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  1. intransitive verb To feel ill or have pain.
  2. transitive verb To cause physical or mental pain or uneasiness to; trouble. See Synonyms at trouble.

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  • She looked at him in that way he wished she did not have-ail large and soulful gray eyes. —  Mary Balogh - Unlikely Duchess
  • She hadn't grieved for Alice Watts at ail, just sent a wreath and removed her from the Rolodex. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 05 - May 1999
  • Kindan was amazed that Master Aleesa, who looked as if she had joint-ail, could possibly manage and then realized that she would have many to help her do her daily wher-caring. —  DRAGON'S KIN
  • The Pie does a good pizza, and I am a glutton when it comes to th at ail-American combination of Italian ingredients. —  Isaac Asimov - Murder at the ABA
  • This room had been his life, an ail-American kid's life. —  Marv wolfman - Superman Returns
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English eilen, from Old English eglian, from egle, troublesome.

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  1. from Middle English eyle, eil, from Anglo-Saxon egle, painful, troublesome, = Gothic (Moesogothic) aglus, hard. Cf. Gothic (Moesogothic) aglo, distress, tribulation, akin to agis, fright, = English awe, q. v.
  2. from Middle English ailen, aylen, earlier eilen, eylen, eЗlen, from Anglo-Saxon eglian, eglan, trouble, pain, = Gothic (Moesogothic) *agljan, only in comp. usagljan, trouble exceedingly, distress; from the adjective: see ail, a. and n.
  3. From the verb. Cf. early Middle English eile, eil, harm (very rare); from the adjective
  4. English dial., in plural ails; variously corrupted oils, hoils, hauels; from Middle English eyle, eile, eizle, from Anglo-Saxon egl, the beard of grain, corn, found only twice, as transitive of Latin festuca, “the mote that is in thy brother's eye” (Luke vi. 41, 42), = Old High German ahil, German achel, beard of grain; from the same root, with different suffix (-l), as awn and ear, q. v.
 

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