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ill health

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ill health, unhealthiness, health problemnoun

    a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain

Wiktionary

  1. ill healthnoun

    A state of illness, or bad health.

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  1. ill health

    Ill health refers to a state or condition in which a person's physical or mental state is impaired or negatively affected. This can include various types of physical diseases, mental disorders, injuries, chronic conditions, or any form of sickness that compromises the normal functioning of an individual's body or mind. Ill health can impact a person's ability to perform daily tasks, reduce quality of life, or even shorten life expectancy.

Editors Contribution

  1. Ill health

    A condition in which a person is feeling sick without any pain


    Submitted by anonymous on August 14, 2019  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ill health in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ill health in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of ill health in a Sentence

  1. Lyndon B. Johnson:

    As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.

  2. Bartolomej Pesta:

    I used to run and play football, and the change to ill-health was a slow deterioration where I gradually felt more tired, and it became hard even to walk by the end, every third day I went to [the] hospital to drain fluid out of my belly. The transplantation was unexpected, but I didn’t worry. I knew I was in good hands.

  3. George Ploubidis:

    It appears that, for those generations born between 1945 and 1980, this trend has stalled. Those born later are expected to live longer on average, but with more years of ill health.

  4. Yitz Dekel:

    We had, especially for my wife, some dizziness, then in my case inexplicable fatigue. And my neighbors, some in ill health, had major coughing and irritation in the eyes and throat. Some had nose bleeding.

  5. Chuangshi Wang:

    Napping could reflect underlying ill-health( fatigue, tiredness) eventually leading to morbidity and mortality, could be a proxy for sleep deprivation, as a compensatory catch-up mechanism, or could also be a symptom of circadian misalignment.


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