dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/ail_MW.json

{
  "ail":{
    "antonyms":[
      "affection",
      "ailment",
      "bug",
      "complaint",
      "complication",
      "condition",
      "disease",
      "disorder",
      "distemper",
      "distemperature",
      "fever",
      "ill",
      "illness",
      "infirmity",
      "malady",
      "sickness",
      "trouble"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": ailment":[
        "winter ails"
      ],
      ": to give physical or emotional pain, discomfort, or trouble to":[
        "His back has been ailing him.",
        "It's good for what ails you.",
        "What's ailing you"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "half of the staff is out sick with the usual wintertime ails",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "There are plenty of things that ail this particular Utah team, maybe more than what can legitimately be fixed in one offseason, but one offseason would be a start. \u2014 Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Jan. 2022",
      "Jackson's ankle didn't appear to ail him at all during the second half. \u2014 Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press , 2 Apr. 2021",
      "Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, obeying The Netherlands\u2019 ban on nursing home visitations during the coronavirus pandemic, did not visit his ailing mother for weeks before her death earlier this month, according to local media reports Monday. \u2014 Fox News , 27 May 2020",
      "Soon after, Wu left the industry to care for her ailing mother in San Jose. \u2014 Robert Ito, New York Times , 29 Apr. 2020",
      "Lucha is caring for her ailing mother, Amalia (Gigi Cervantes), who\u2019s losing her memory. \u2014 Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News , 26 Mar. 2020",
      "Chambers, 49, was noticeably absent from the midseason finale in November, and it was explained that his character was taking care of his ailing mother. \u2014 Christina Dugan, PEOPLE.com , 23 Jan. 2020",
      "Nugent wrote that Walker also plans to care for his ailing mother, who is suffering from leukemia, Nugent wrote. \u2014 Eric Heisig, cleveland , 17 Oct. 2019",
      "The protagonist, Arthur Fleck, is a mentally ill aspiring stand-up comedian who lives in a rundown flat with his ailing mother, Penny (Frances Conroy). \u2014 N.b., The Economist , 3 Oct. 2019",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Overall, China\u2019s box office continues to ail , with sizable pockets of cinemas across the country still closed as a COVID precaution and consumer activity suppressed by mass testing and a prevailing sense of caution. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 June 2022",
      "Illinois\u2019s fiscal ails have long revolved around its pension system for teachers and state workers. \u2014 Shruti Singh, Bloomberg.com , 18 May 2020",
      "By comparison, the U.S., the coronavirus\u2019s new hotspot, earmarked $2 trillion in March to help businesses, hospitals, and workers counter the economic ails of COVID-19, while the Fed slashed interest rates to nearly zero. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 20 Apr. 2020",
      "This social pressure only worked, though, to the extent that patients could afford to leave normal life behind, and ail in isolation from their communities. \u2014 Annika Neklason, The Atlantic , 21 Mar. 2020",
      "El Paso j ail records show a Patrick Wood Crusius was booked Sunday on state charges of capital murder. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Aug. 2019",
      "Apple\u2019s smartphone shipments in China fell 20% in the quarter ended December from a year earlier, according to International Data Corp. Tepid iPhone sales aren't all that ail Apple in China. \u2014 Stella Yifan Xie, WSJ , 21 Feb. 2019",
      "Brian Dennehy is Irina\u2019s ailing elder brother, Sorin, although Dennehy, at seventy-nine, still looks too bearishly robust to ail . \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 11 May 2018",
      "The pitch inherently presumes a technologically advanced society, one where medicine has cured our physical ails . \u2014 Will Nevin, OregonLive.com , 26 Dec. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English eil \"harm, trouble,\" perhaps in part going back to an Old English noun *\u00e6gl, *\u00e6gle, n-stem noun cognate with Gothic aglo \"tribulation,\" derivative of a Germanic adjective agla-, whence Old English egle \"grievous, painful\"; in part noun derivative of Middle English eilen \"to trouble, afflict\" and eile \"harmful, grievous\" (continuing Old English egle ) \u2014 more at ail entry 1":"Noun",
      "Middle English eilen, eilien \"to trouble, afflict, affect (with animate or inanimate agent), be troubled, affected,\" going back to Old English eglan, eglian \"to torment, afflict (with animate or inanimate agent),\" going back to Germanic *agljan- (whence also Norwegian egle \"to bait, goad, heckle,\" Danish dialect [Jutland] egle \"to goad,\" [Bornholm] \u00e4gla \"to scold,\" Gothic agljan, translating Greek bl\u00e1ptein \"to harm, hurt\"), of uncertain origin":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u0101(\u0259)l",
      "\u02c8\u0101l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "agitate",
      "alarm",
      "alarum",
      "bother",
      "concern",
      "derail",
      "discomfort",
      "discompose",
      "dismay",
      "disquiet",
      "distemper",
      "distract",
      "distress",
      "disturb",
      "exercise",
      "flurry",
      "frazzle",
      "freak (out)",
      "fuss",
      "hagride",
      "perturb",
      "undo",
      "unhinge",
      "unsettle",
      "upset",
      "weird out",
      "worry"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105108",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "ailing":{
    "antonyms":[
      "healthy",
      "well"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having or suffering from an illness or injury":[
        "providing care for his ailing mother",
        "trying to rest her ailing knee/back",
        "a person in ailing health",
        "\u2014 often used figuratively an ailing company an ailing economy"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Ted Taylor, a chatty teacher at Cedar Hills High School and volunteer chaplain at the Orem Fire Department, hopes state leaders find a solution to the ailing Great Salt Lake. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 June 2022",
      "Donigan has a plan to put the ailing pharmacy chain back on track. \u2014 Sheryl Estrada, Fortune , 15 June 2022",
      "Through tokenization, coding is now creating new hybrid stock options for businesses and could offer a way forward for many ailing companies. \u2014 Ivan Burazin, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
      "In the sixth, however, Jeimer Candelario \u2014 who entered in the third for an ailing Robbie Grossman \u2014 connected with a 79.5 mph curveball from McKenzie for a line-drive solo homer to right. \u2014 Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press , 29 May 2022",
      "Phoebe inexplicably pressures Emma to visit their ailing mother, who\u2019s been locked away in a sanitarium since her homicidal breakdown. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "At the time, Luma and government officials said the company was well positioned to tap some $9.5 billion in federal money to repair the notoriously aging and ailing system. \u2014 Jim Wyss, Bloomberg.com , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "An ailing 78-year-old who spent 30 years on death row. \u2014 Chris Kenning, USA TODAY , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "But its framing was a marked shift from the 2021 pitch for a fundamental transformation of an ailing American society. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1598, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "from present participle of ail entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u0101-li\u014b"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "invalid",
      "sickly",
      "weakly"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181906",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "ailment":{
    "antonyms":[
      "health",
      "wellness"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a bodily disorder or chronic disease":[
        "a stomach ailment"
      ],
      ": unrest , uneasiness":[
        "an emotional ailment"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She suffered from a chronic back ailment .",
      "The doctor treated him for a variety of ailments .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Although diabetes is a common cause for this uncommon ailment , most people do not have an identifiable cause of gastroparesis. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 23 June 2022",
      "The dispensary is strictly for those authorized under the Lone Star State's Compassionate Use Program, which requires a diagnosis of a certain disease or ailment and a prescription from a doctor. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 23 June 2022",
      "The ailment initially manifested as a back injury, but the pain migrated to his legs. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune , 3 June 2022",
      "Each of them delivers a pompous speech diagnosing Pinocchio\u2019s ailment , and each diagnosis differs from the others. \u2014 Joan Acocella, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
      "The implant is specifically for patients with microtia, a rare congenital ailment where the outer ear is either underdeveloped or doesn't exist at all. \u2014 Li Cohen, CBS News , 2 June 2022",
      "And parsing out the severity of an infection isn\u2019t easy in someone who\u2019s battling another ailment , says Westyn Branch-Elliman, an infectious-disease physician at VA Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 23 May 2022",
      "Treinen missing \u2018trust\u2019: Blake Treinen\u2019s mystery shoulder ailment came no closer to being explained despite the best efforts of the Dodgers\u2019 high-leverage reliever Saturday. \u2014 Steve Hensonassistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times , 14 May 2022",
      "This common ailment can be caused by ingesting water contaminated with bacterial pathogens such as Enterococcus. \u2014 Sean Mowbray, Smithsonian Magazine , 9 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1606, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "ail entry 1 + -ment":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u0101l-m\u0259nt",
      "\u02c8\u0101(\u0259)l-m\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "affection",
      "ail",
      "bug",
      "complaint",
      "complication",
      "condition",
      "disease",
      "disorder",
      "distemper",
      "distemperature",
      "fever",
      "ill",
      "illness",
      "infirmity",
      "malady",
      "sickness",
      "trouble"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043324",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "ailanthus":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u012b-",
      "\u0101-\u02c8lan(t)-th\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Kamarian (Austronesian language of the Piru Bay region, Seram) ai lanito , literally, the sky tree, or from a cognate phrase in a related central Moluccan language":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1789, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172228"
  },
  "ailanthus silkworm":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a large green silkworm ( Cynthia samia ) native to China that feeds especially on the tree of heaven":[],
      "\u2014 compare cynthia moth":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1860, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195756"
  },
  "ailanto":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": ailanthus sense 2":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u012b-\u02c8l\u00e4n-\u02cct\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Amboinese ai lanto":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1835, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214939"
  }
}