Usually means: Detrimental conditions affecting health, society.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word ills:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. ills: Merriam-Webster
  2. ills: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ills: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ills: Vocabulary.com
  5. Ill's, Ills, ills: Wordnik
  6. ills: Wiktionary
  7. ills: Dictionary.com
  8. ills: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ills: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ILLS: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ills: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ill as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ILL)

adjective:  (obsolete) Evil; wicked (of people).
adjective:  (archaic) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
adjective:  Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
adjective:  Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
adjective:  Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
adjective:  Having an urge to vomit.
adjective:  (slang, chiefly hip-hop) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
adjective:  (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
adjective:  (dated) Unwise; not a good idea.
adjective:  (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.
adverb:  Not well; imperfectly, badly
noun:  (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
noun:  Harm or injury.
noun:  Evil; moral wrongfulness.
noun:  A physical ailment; an illness.
noun:  (US, slang, uncountable) PCP, phencyclidine.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, dated) To behave aggressively.
noun:  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.]
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