Usually means: Suffering from illness or decline.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word ailing:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. ailing: Merriam-Webster
  2. ailing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ailing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ailing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Ailing, ailing: Wordnik
  6. ailing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. ailing: Wiktionary
  8. ailing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ailing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ailing: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Ailing, ailing: Dictionary.com
  12. ailing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Ailing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ailing: Rhymezone
  15. Ailing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. ailing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. ailing: FreeDictionary.org
  18. ailing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. ailing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. ailing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  21. ailing: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ailing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ailing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ailing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. ailing: Medical dictionary

(Note: See ail as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An ailment.
adjective:  Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

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