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      ill
      noun
      (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
      Harm or injury.
      Evil; moral wrongfulness.
      A physical ailment; an illness.
      (US, slang, uncountable) PCP, phencyclidine.
      A river in France, tributary to the Rhine.
      Initialism of interlibrary loan. [(library science) A loan of an item (such as a book, article, or sound recording) between two library systems or similar institutions.]
      verb
      (intransitive, slang, dated) To behave aggressively.
      adjective
      Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
      Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
      Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
      Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.
      (slang, chiefly hip-hop) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
      (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
      (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.
      (dated) Unwise; not a good idea.
      (obsolete) Evil; wicked (of people).
      (archaic) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
      adverb
      Not well; imperfectly, badly
      Synonyms for ill
      sickadjunwelladjailmentnbadlyadvsickishadjailingadjsicknessnindisposedadjmaladynunhealthyadj
      Words related to ill
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