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
But one may make ill use of hope, since the passion of hope, like the other passions, is subject to a mean and extremes.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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 William Shakespeare
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 John Mead Gould
For thine own good I would not have thee strive, nor make ill blood And shame about thee.
From The Trojan Women of Euripedes by Euripedes
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