Usually means: Causes discomfort, pain, or illness.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. ails: Merriam-Webster
  2. ails: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ails: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ails, ails: Wordnik
  5. ails: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ails: Wiktionary
  7. ails: Dictionary.com
  8. ails: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. ails: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AILS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

(Note: See ail as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ail)

verb:  (transitive) To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
verb:  (intransitive) To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
noun:  (obsolete) An ailment; trouble; illness.
adjective:  (obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
noun:  The awn of barley or other types of corn.
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