Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
malady
IPA transcription: [m'ælədi]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
malady
Meaning:
any unwholesome or desperate condition; "what maladies afflict our nation?"
Synonyms:
illness, unwellness, malady, sickness
Meaning:
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
Usage examples
Who is free from this malady?
Still she uttered no complaint nor imparted to any one the malady that was preying on her heart.
Countess Helene Bezukhova had suddenly died of that terrible malady it had been so agreeable to mention.
It is the mood of a man who examines with morbid, curious insistence the malady that is devouring his soul.
The Australian specialists agreed that the malady was non-parasitic, and that, therefore, it must be nervous.
It needed but the thought that she was about to lose him to make her know her malady, and meet it face to face.
Early symptoms should be noted and receive prompt attention; this will often cut short the duration of the malady.
Of this malady, Desire was slowly dying, for no medicine could cure him or even give him any relief from his constant pain.
Sordid and foul thoughts, like an internal malady, sap the economic efficiency of the worker; clean, bright thoughts act as a tonic.
I told her that one of the doctors was evidently puzzled, and that the other had acknowledged that the malady was so far incomprehensible to him.