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
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 George Wharton James
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
It would only make ill worse to speak of it as we rode together in the litter.
From The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
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
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