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A study in the Netherlands found that most patients who have been ill for 10 days are already making their own antibodies against the virus.

None have been proven yet, and much of the federal and private funding for clinical trials has gone for treating the severely ill.

In places where most people wore masks, those who did get infected seemed dramatically less likely to get severely ill compared to places with less mask-wearing.

The following day he felt ill and tested positive for the coronavirus.

Volunteers who were either ill, recovered or healthy all coughed at about the same velocity.

They had rarely seen their own fathers carry small children unless their mothers were ill.

I am fortunate that I have never been deathly ill, but whenever I have the stomach flu, I most certainly feel like I am dying.

David Prowse, the actor who portrayed Darth Vader, wished to come back but had to turn down the role because of ill health.

But Seligman never imagined how Mitchell might put the concept to work, in part because it was so ill-suited to that purpose.

There is a procedure called “compassionate release” allowing terminally ill men to die at home.

These differences of interests will lead to disputes, ill blood, and finally to separation.

And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness.

G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.

"It is ill-fated;" and Alessandro blamed himself for having forgotten her only association with the name.

The Marshals were inclined to attribute their disgrace to the ill-will of Berthier and not to the temper of Napoleon.

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The adjective ill is more mild than evil or wicked, and it appears mainly in certain fixed expressions: ill will; ill-natured. Evil applies to that which violates or leads to the violation of moral law: evil practices. Wicked implies willful and determined doing of what is very wrong: a wicked plan. Bad is the broadest and simplest term: a bad man; bad habits. 

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On this page you'll find 213 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ill, such as: afflicted, ailing, diseased, infirm, poorly, and woozy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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