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 Translation for 'ailing' from English to French
VERB   to ail | ailed | ailed
ailing | ails
SYNO ailing | indisposed | peaked | ...
mal portant {adj}ailing
sonné {adj} [fam.]ailing
méd.
ébranlé {adj} {past-p} [santé]
ailing
valétudinaire {adj}ailing [also fig.]
méd.
être souffrant
to be ailing
comm.
être mal en point [entreprise]
to be ailing
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Usage Examples English
  • Injured or ailing whales may also be attacked and eaten.
  • A young man must take the place of his ailing father in driving a carriage.
  • When she announced that she would not seek a fifth term in 1991, citing her brother's ailing health and reapportionment, it was clear to her colleagues that it was her own health that was ailing her.
  • Jonathan Mortimer: Judith's ailing father who has neglected the family farm to pursue his scholarly writings.
  • In December 2009, he called on the ailing President to resign.

  • Jason Lair lives with his ailing grandfather Henry, son Zach, and a live-in nurse, Katrina, from Denmark.
  • Hayek worked as an actuary for Swiss Re, before briefly managing his ailing father-in-law's engineering company.
  • Ferrari then retired from sports car racing to focus on the ailing Formula One effort.
  • On December 31, 2006, Christensen resigned from the Senate to assist her ailing husband.
  • In 1876 she traveled through the United States as the companion of an ailing American woman.

  • In 1997, he took over the reigns of government from an ailing Mayor Pablo Cuneta.
  • After a year of ailing health, Sweitzer died on April 6, 1938, at St. Anne's Hospital in Chicago.
  • He also treats ailing people of interior villages.
  • Yeltsin's campaign worked to conceal his ailing health from the public.
  • Muktar succeeded the ailing Alemayehu Atomsa as President of the Oromia Region on 18 February 2014.

  • An attempt to relaunch her ailing career brings some unwelcome attention from her livelier listeners.
  • After taking over Norton & Sons in 2005, Grant has been credited with rejuvenating the once ailing business.
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