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leiden — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • affliction noun A condition or event that causes ongoing pain, suffering, or hardship.
  • ail verb To cause someone pain or trouble, often used when asking what is wrong with them.
  • ailment noun An illness, especially a minor or ongoing one.
  • anguish noun Severe mental or physical suffering, often caused by grief, loss, or distress.
  • complaint noun A statement expressing dissatisfaction or a problem.
  • suffer verb To experience pain, hardship, or distress.
  • suffering noun Pain or distress, whether physical or emotional.

Senses

leiden is used for these senses in English:

  • Leiden A city in South Holland, Netherlands, on the Old Rhine, seat of a famous Dutch university.
  • affliction A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
  • ail (obsolete) An ailment; trouble; illness.
  • ail (intransitive) To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
  • ailment Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
  • anguish (intransitive) To suffer pain.
  • complaint A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.
  • suffer from (transitive) To have a particular disease or condition.

ail — full definition

  1. verb To cause someone pain or trouble, often used when asking what is wrong with them.
  2. verb To feel unwell or be in pain.
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