Ailed vs Mailed - What's the difference?
ailed | mailed |
(ail)
(obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
* Bible, Genesis xxi. 17
* 2011 , "Connubial bliss in America", The Economist :
To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
* Richardson
(mail)
Armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.
(lb) Spotted.
* 1888 , Frederick Albion Ober, A Boy's Adventures in the West Indies , page 169:
(mail)
As verbs the difference between ailed and mailed
is that ailed is (ail) while mailed is (mail) or mailed can be (mail).As an adjective mailed is
armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.ailed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*ail
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.
- What aileth thee, Hagar?
- Not content with having in 1996 put a Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the statue book, Congress has now begun to hold hearings on a Respect for Marriage Act. Defended, respected: what could possibly ail marriage in America?
- When he ails ever so little he is so peevish.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "ail")Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Anagrams
* * ----mailed
English
Etymology 1
From .Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From .Adjective
(en adjective)- from blossom of lime to perfumed bloom of acacia — darts the humming-bird, his coat of mailed feathers glowing like a gem.