ailingadjective
uk/ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/us/ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/ailing adjective (WITH DIFFICULTIES)
experiencing difficulty and problems:
the country's ailing economy
Ted asked me if I could help him fix his ailing car.
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Experiencing difficulties
- be
- be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
- be climbing the walls idiom
- be for the high jump idiom
- be/come up against a brick wall idiom
- creek
- difficulty
- embattled
- fall into sth
- flounder
- frying pan
- leg
- on a razor edge idiom
- out of the frying pan into the fire idiom
- patch
- pickle
- pressed
- pushed
- ride
- thin
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ailing adjective (SICK)
weak and suffering from illness:
He's visiting his ailing father.
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Not fit & healthy
- bedridden
- critical list
- crook
- danger list
- dehydrated
- emaciated
- far gone
- frailty
- groggy
- ill
- infirmity
- insufficiency
- knock
- not agree with sb idiom
- off-colour
- organic
- relapse
- shadow
- starved
- unhealthy
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