ill health

See also: ill-health

English

Alternative forms

• ill-health

Pronunciation

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Noun

ill health (uncountable)

1. (idiomatic) A state of illness, or bad health.

   I have to cancel my holidays due to continuing ill health.

   • 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131/132:

     There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District.

Translations

state of bad health

• Greek:

  Ancient: καχεξία f (kakhexía)

• Irish: breoiteacht f
• Scottish Gaelic: euslaint f
• Swedish: ohälsa (sv) c

References

• “ill health”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.