Ail

Definition: Ail

Ail

Noun

1. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.

Verb

1. Be unwell, ill, or ill disposed.

2. Cause bodily suffering to.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ail" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

AIL

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Ail

Disease

Verb: be ill; Adjective: ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of, have; droop, flag, languish, halt; sicken, peak, pine; gasp.

Pain

Verb: feel pain, suffer pain, experience pain, undergo pain, bear pain, endure pain; Noun: smart, ache; (physical pain); suffer, bleed, ail; be the victim of.

Crosswords: Ail

French (garlic, leek), Welsh (a second time, again, like, second).

Books

• Agweddau Ar Dwf Piwritaniaeth Yng Nghymru Yn Yr Ail Ganrif Ar Bymtheg (Welsh Studies, Vol 6) (reference)

• Canu arnaf : ail gasgliad o gerddi (reference)

• Gwaedd y lleiddiad : blodeugerdd Barddas o gerddi'r Ail Ryfel Byd, 1939-1945 (reference)

• Gwaith Bleddyn Fardd a Beirdd Eraill Ail Hanner y Drydedd Ganrif AR Ddeg (reference)

• Protest a thystiolaeth : agweddau ar y dystiolaeth Gristionogol yn yr Ail Ryfel Byd (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Relato De Indias/Sombra De Ail (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Ending with "ail": explain-ail.

Albanian

shqetësoj (agitate, alarm, bother, break up, concern, denationalize, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distemper, distress, disturb, eat, embarrass, fash, flurry, fret, Harrow, Harry, incommode, move, peeve, perturb, plague, pother, preoccupy, ruffle, trouble, vex, worry), jam i sëmurë (be ill). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرض (ailment, be ill, become ill, complaint, disease, fall ill, fall sick, favorable, favourable, get ill, illness, infirmity, mal, malady, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pox, satisfactory, satisfying, sicken, sickness, take ill, trouble), ‏وجع (ache, distress, fell, gripe, inflict, pain, soreness, wrench), ‏توعك (illness, indisposition, malady, malaise), ‏أزعج (annoy, beset, bother, burn, discompose, disquiet, disrupt, distress, disturb, get in the way, get on smb.'s nerves, gig, gnaw, grate, hamper, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, infest, intrude, irk, irritate, jolt, molest, nag, niggle, obsess, offend, pain, peck, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, possess, prickle, put out, rasp, rattle, ruffle, saddle, torment, trouble, upset, vex). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тревожа (alarm, disturb, exercise, fuss, perturb, put about, weigh on, worrit, worry), неразположен съм (be ill, be poorly, be unwell), болен съм, безпокоя (agitate, alarm, bother, chivy, discompose, disturb, exercise, fash, feeze, gall, inconvenience, molest, pother, put about, vex, worry), измъчвам (afflict, agonize, anguish, crucify, excruciate, fester, harass, lacerate, martyr, martyrize, play up, prey, push, rack, rankle, ride, scourge, smite, torture, try, victimize, weigh on). (various references)

Chinese 

苦惱 (annoy, distress, distressed, to be in misery, vexation), 痛苦 (Ailed, Pain, pained, Painful, Paining, Pains, suffering). (various references)

Czech

trápit (afflict, agonize, bait, beset, bother, discommode, disgruntle, grieve, nag, pain, pester, plague, pother, rack, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, vex, worry), bolet (ache, fester, hurt, pain, rankle). (various references)

Dutch

schorten, schelen (be different, be lacking, be missing, differ). (various references)

Farsi 

پریشان کردن (Afflict, Agitate, Buffalo, Confound, Distract, Nonplus, Oppress, Stress, Tousle), مانع شدن (Debar, Exclude, Hamper, Hinder, Holdup, Impede, Inhibit, Obstruct, Obturate, Prevent, Rein, Resist, Revoke, Stop, Stymie, Suppress), عقب انداختن (Defer, Hinder, Postpone), ازردن (Afflict, Aggrieve, Annoy, Distaste, Goad, Grate, Gripe, Grit, Harrow, Harry, Hurt, Irk, Irritate, Lacerate, Mortify, Peeve, Prick, Rile, Tar), دردیاکسالتی داشتن . (various references)

German

plagen (afflict, badger, harass, Harry, infest, niggle, pester, plage, plague, rack, run, to afflict, to ail, to plague, torment, vex), kränkeln (be ailing, be in poor health, be sickly, to ail). (various references)

Greek 

πάσχω (suffer), πονώ (ache, be in pain, hurt, pain, rankle, smart, twinge), ενοχλώ (act up, annoy, badger, bedevil, bother, derange, discommode, disturb, fret, get someone's back up, grate on, harass, heckle, incommode, inconvenience, infest, irk, irritate, jar on, pester, pother, trouble). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחוש (ache, indisposition, infirmity, pain), מכאוב (ache, affliction, disease, grief, pain, trouble), לחלות (be sick, fall ill, fall sick, get ill, sicken), ל�"כאיב (hurt, torment, trouble), ל�"ציק (aggravate, aggrieve, annoy, harass, irk, molest, nag, persecute, pester, shove around, tease, torment, vex). (various references)

Hungarian

gyengélkedik (be on the sick list, to ail, to be indisposed, to be out of sorts, to be unwell, to feel indisposed, to feel poorly, to feel unfit), betegség (ailment, complaint, disease, distemper, evil, illness, malady, malaise, morbidity, sickness, trouble), betegeskedik (to ail, to be unwell), bánt (grieve, maltreat, offend, to aggrieve, to ail, to annoy, to chagrin, to discommode, to displease, to distress, to injure, to maltreat, to offend). (various references)

Indonesian

sakit (ache, ailment, diseased, ill, painful, sick), celomes (fusy, hard to please, suffer chronically). (various references)

Italian

affliggere (afflict, aggrieve, distress, fret, grieve, irk, pain, plague, scourge, trouble), addolorare (aggrieve, be sorry, grieve, pain). (various references)

Korean 

괴롭히십시�" (Afflict, Annoy). (various references)

Manx

jannoo er (prey upon, trouble, wage war). (various references)

Pig Latin

ailay.(various references)

Portuguese

afligir (afflict, aggrieve, annoy, chagrin, distress, fret, gall, grieve, lacerate, oppress, pain, plague, press, sadden, torment, vex, weigh, worry), incomodar (annoy, bother, discomfort, discommode, disquiet, disturb, fidget, fret, harass, hinder, incommode, inconvenience, leech, molest, pester, roil, trouble), estar doente (fall ill), doer (ache, hurt, pain, sting, tingle). (various references)

Romanian

suferi (abide, allow, bear, Brook, carry out, endure, experience, go through, have, languish, permit, put up with, smart, stand, stick, suffer, undergo), pricinui durere (hurt), durea (ache, afflict, be painful, distress, grieve, hurt, pain, rankle, regret, shoot, smart, sting), boli. (various references)

Russian 

беспокоить (concern, distressing, disturb, fash, faze, feeze, fret, harass, incommode, inconvenience, perturb, plague, put about, trouble, vex). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zadati bol, tištati, mučiti (agonize, beleaguer, excruciate, gnaw, harass, mortify, nettle, persecute, plague, rack, rankle, tantalize, torment, torture), boleti (ache, hurt, pain). (various references)

Spanish

afligir (afflict, aggrieve, cause pain, cause pain to, depress, distress, give pain to, grieve, rankle, trouble, try, vex), hacer sufrir (try), estar enfermo (be ill, be sick). (various references)

Swedish

vara krasslig, plåga (afflict, aggrieve, agonize, agony, bedevil, bother, crucify, curse, distress, excruciate, excruciation, fret, gall, harass, Harrow, Harry, infliction, jar, pain, pang, persecute, pester, pinch, plague, rack, ride, scourge, tear, terror, torment, torture, worry, wring), besvära (annoy, appeal, bother, complain, disoblige, disturb, embarrass, encumber, importune, incommode, inconvenience, pester, plague, protest, trouble). (various references)

Turkish

sıkmak (bore, bother, Chevy, chivvy, chivy, clench, constipate, constrict, crush, cumber, depress, distress, extrude, give the willies, grip, harass, hatchel, hold tight, incommode, irk, jam, load, make fast, mope, oppress, pinch, press, pressurize, pull on, ream, ream out, squeeze, straiten, strangulate, tighten), rahatsız olmak (be annoyed, be disturbed, be liverish, be troubled with, be uncomfortable, chafe, take alarm, worry), rahatsız etmek (annoy, badger, bait, bother, chafe, chivvy, chivy, derange, devil, discomfort, discommode, distract, disturb, get in smb.'s hair, goad, goad on, harass, hassle, hatchel, hump, incommode, inconvenience, irritate, make a draft on, pester, put smb. to inconvenience, put upon, trouble, twist smb.'s tail, worry), hastalanmak (be sickening for, be taken ill, become ill, fall, fall ill, fall sick, get ill, go down, sicken, take ill), hasta olmak (be sick, be taken ill, fall ill, feel ill, feel queer, feel sick, get ill, take ill). (various references)

Ukrainian

слабість (asthenia, debility, delicacy, enervation, flaccidity, foible, illness, languor, limpness, wasting, weakness), хворіти (sicken), хвороба (affection, affliction, ailment, cause, disease, disorder, illness, malady, sick, sickness), турбувати (afflict, annoy, commove, concern, derange, disoblige, embarrass, faze, gnaw, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, perturb, put about, work, worry), остюк ячменю, нездужати, нездужання (ailing, ailment, distemper, indisposition, malaise, queasiness, theism), непокоїти (afflict, bother, disquiet, harass), засмучуватися (be grieved, gloom, shadow). (various references)

Welsh

poeni (ache, annoy, badger, grieve, pain, torment, worry), clafychu (fall ill, sicken), blino (aggrieve, annoy, bore, bother, get tired, tire, trouble, vex, weary). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "ail": ailanthus, ailanthuses, ailed, aileron, ailerons, ailing, ailment, ailments, ails, ailurophile, ailurophiles, ailurophobe, ailurophobes, ailurophobia, ailurophobias. (additional references)

Words ending with "ail": abigail, agnail, airmail, assail, avail, aventail, bail, bangtail, bedrail, bewail, blackmail, blacktail, bobtail, brail, brantail, bristletail, broadtail, bucktail, camail, cattail, coattail, cocktail, contrail, cottontail, countervail, curtail, derail, detail, disentail, doornail, dovetail, drail, ducktail, email, engrail, entail, fail, fantail, fingernail, fishtail, flail, foresail, forestaysail, foxtail, frail, grail, graymail, greenmail, guardrail, hail, handrail. (additional references)

Words containing "ail": abigails, agnails, airmailed, airmailing, airmails, assailable, assailant, assailants, assailed, assailer, assailers, assailing, assails, availabilities, availability, available, availableness, availablenesses, availably, availed, availing, avails, aventails, bailable, bailed, bailee, bailees, bailer, bailers, bailey, baileys, bailie, bailies, bailiff, bailiffs, bailiffship, bailiffships, bailing, bailiwick, bailiwicks, bailment, bailments, bailor, bailors, bailout, bailouts, bails, bailsman, bailsmen, bangtails, battailous. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aaal, aaf, aal, aao, Abil, Abill, abl, acii, acil, adil, adl, Aecl, ael, aeol, afil, afl, agil, agild, agl, ahii, ahil, Ahilo, ahl, ai, aib, aic, aif, Aifld, aig, Aih, Aii, aiii, Aij, aik, Aila, aile, ailo, ailt, aily, aio, aip, aiq, Aiu, aiv, aiw, aixl, aiy, aiz, Aji, ajil, akil, ali, alib, alic, Alif, alig, alih, Alii, alik, alil, Alim, alio, Alip, alir, amial, Amil, aoi, aol, aoli, aolu, apil, Apilu, apl, aqil, arl, asil, atil, atl, aui, auil, aul, aulf, aull, aulo, aulp, auv, auw, aviil, avil, avili, avl, awil, axl, ayb, ayel, Ayelu, ayl, ayla, azi, Azil, azl, eil, ezil, ia, ial, iale, Iao, Iau, Ili, iqilm, Iul, Ixil, qail, qali, uai, uil, uinl, yail, yil, zail, Zihl, zil. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ai, al, la, li.

+1 letter: ails, alif, alit, anil, aril, axil, bail, dial, fail, fila, glia, hail, hila, ilea, ilia, ilka, jail, kail, laic, laid, lain, lair, lari, lati, liar, lima, lipa, lira, mail, nail, pail, pial, rail, rial, sail, sial, tail, tali, vail, vial, wail.

+2 letters: aalii, aboil, agile, ailed, aioli, aisle, alcid, algid, algin, alias, alibi, alien, alifs, align, alike, aline, alist, alive, aliya, aloin, anile, anils, anvil, argil, ariel, arils, atilt, aulic, avail, axial, axile, axils, bails, basil, biali, bialy, binal, blain, brail, calif, calix, cavil, cilia, claim, clavi, daily, dials, drail, dulia, elain, email, fails, filar, final, flail, flair, folia, frail, gaily, glair, glial, glias, grail, hails, halid, hilar, ideal, ileac, ileal, iliac, iliad, ilial, inlay, jails, kails, kalif, kibla, laari, labia, laich, laics, laigh, laird, lairs, laith, laity, lamia, lanai, lapin, lapis, laris, lathi, liana, liane, liang, liard, liars, libra, lidar, ligan, lilac, liman, limas, limba, limpa, linac, linga, liras, litai, litas, logia, maile, maill, mails, malic, miaul, milia, milpa, nails, nidal, nival, pails, palpi, phial, pibal, pical, pilaf, pilar, pilau, pilaw, pilea, pipal, plaid, plain, plait, plica, quail, rails, rials, rival, riyal, sails, salic, salmi, sials, silva, sisal, slain, snail, spail, swail, tails, telia, tical, tidal, tilak, trail, trial, urial, vails, vakil, valid, vials, villa, vinal, viola, viral, vital, voila, wails.