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Ill

/ɪl/
Not feeling well or being sick

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Examples:

She feels ill and needs to rest.The ill cat slept on the warm blanket.

Etymology:

etymology
From Middle English ill, ylle (“morally evil, malevolent, harmful, unfortunate”), from Old Norse illr (“ill, bad, hard, difficult”), and partly from Old Norse illt (“badly”).

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