0 past simple and past participle of ail --
1 to cause difficulty and problems for someone or something: --
The government seems to have no understanding of what ails the country.
To the comfort of the patient, someone ailed with this disease may be able to lead a relatively normal life with vertiginous seizures.
His medical condition had been kept under the wraps; only very few knew what actually ailed him.
He is reported to have ailed for over two years at their main house in the city.
Is he aware that that service is being threatened or severely curt ailed in some areas which means that children will no longer have annual dental inspections?
We have not yet properly examined this country's potential for getting income from different sources to get enough money into a system that has ailed for too long.
A husband may have ailed a long time before his death.
Some industries in this country, such as the coal industry, have ailed and almost disappeared.
Such industries ailed because there was no market for their goods.
