ill

ill
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(esp. BrE) adj. ⇨ See also ↑sick
VERBS
appear, be, feel, look, seem
lie

He was lying ill in bed.

become, be taken (BrE), fall, get, grow
remain
make sb

I can't eat bananas. They make me ill. (esp. BrE)

That type of government corruption makes me ill.

(figurative, esp. AmE)
ADVERB
critically, dangerously, desperately, extremely, gravely, really, seriously, severely, terribly, very

His mother is seriously ill in the hospital.

almost

Robyn was almost ill with excitement and outrage.

pretty, quite, rather, slightly
genuinely
violently

She was taken violently ill and had to be put to bed.

acutely
chronically

chronically ill patients

fatally, incurably, mortally, terminally

a hospice for the terminally ill

mentally, physically

the problems faced by mentally ill people

PREPOSITION
with

He fell ill with cholera in 1849.

from

They arrive at the hospital ill from malnutrition.

Ill is used with these nouns: ↑effect, ↑feeling, ↑fortune, ↑health, ↑luck, ↑omen, ↑person, ↑relative, ↑temper, ↑will
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adv.
Ill is used with these adjectives: ↑informed, ↑suited
Ill is used with these verbs: ↑afford

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