ill
adjective
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/ɪl/ uk
/ɪl/ill adjective (NOT WELL)
ill with He's been ill with meningitis.
critically ill He is critically (= very badly) ill in the hospital.
- be a shadow/shell of your former self idiom
- be at death's door idiom
- bed
- clinically obese
- complain
- complain of something
- critical list
- emaciated
- frailty
- gaunt
- groggy
- hollow
- infirm
- overnutrition
- poorly
- run someone/something down
- take to your bed idiom
- undernourishment
- unhealthful
- wan
ill adjective (BAD)
C1 [ before noun ] formal or literary
bad:
ill adjective (GOOD)
ill
adverb
us
/ɪl/ uk
/ɪl/ill
noun
us
/ɪl/ uk
/ɪl/- adulterate
- adulterated
- adulteration
- applecart
- at-risk
- butcher
- eat
- eat away at something
- erode
- flaw
- foul
- foul (something) up
- gloss
- rain on someone's parade idiom
- rampage
- ravage
- ravages
- ruin
- sour
- wreck
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