make ill

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Most people were born at home and died at home, and medicine’s principal function was to make ill people as comfortable as possible while nature healed them or killed them.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2017

This is certainly acting the part of an orator, and if in any respect he attacks the profession, it is on account of those who make ill use of eloquence.

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville

Nothing tends to make ill feeling more than having to do another's work; and, where there are many in a party, each one is apt to leave something for others to do.

From How to Camp Out by Gould, John Mead

Thou say'st his meat was sauc'd with thy upbraidings: Unquiet meals make ill digestions; Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; And what's a fever but a fit of madness?

From The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, William

Then, to make ill matters worse—piling Ossa. upon Pelion—he was asked to speak at a certain club, with others.

From Quit Your Worrying! by James, George Wharton