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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