Ill (Noun)
Meaning
An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- The flu was a recurring ill that plagued the school throughout the winter.
- Her financial struggles had become the ill that prevented her from living the life she wanted.
- Years of smoking had taken its toll on his health, resulting in a severe lung ill.
- After the argument, his friend's silence was the ill that weighed heavily on his conscience.
- The town was struggling to find a cure for the environmental ill that was causing the fish in the river to disappear.