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

It would only make ill worse to speak of it as we rode together in the litter.

From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

I know what you think about family, and I don’t want to make ill return for the courtesy and kindness you and Mr. Winthrop have always shown me.”

From David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West by Maniates, Belle Kanaris

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

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