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illness
English
Etymology
From ill +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l.n?s/
Noun
illness (countable and uncountable, plural illnesses)
- (countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
- Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
- (uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
- Many working days this year have been lost through illness.
Synonyms
- (instance): sickness
- (state): sickness
- See also Thesaurus:disease
Derived terms
- mental illness
Related terms
- ill
Translations
See also
- hypochondriac
Further reading
- Wikipedia stub on illness
illness From the web:
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wizened
English
Etymology
wizen +? ed.
Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisn?jan. Cognate with Icelandic visna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?z?nd/, /?wiz?nd/
Verb
wizened
- simple past tense and past participle of wizen
Adjective
wizened (comparative more wizened, superlative most wizened)
- Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, ch. 8:
- "Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper. . . "If it hadna been that I am mair than half a gentlewoman by my station, I wad hae tried my ten nails in the wizen'd hide o' her!"
- 1907, Jack London, Before Adam, ch. 7:
- He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray.
- 2010 May 13, Richard Corliss, "Cannes: Best-Ever Film by a 101-Year-Old Man," Time (retrieved 5 Oct 2013):
- In the simple fable about old age reconciling itself to memory and destiny, Mastroianni wears the wizened smile of a man who knows he is visiting his youth for the last time.
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, ch. 8:
Translations
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