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Ailing vs Doddering - What's the difference?

ailing | doddering | Related terms |

Ailing is a related term of doddering.


As nouns the difference between ailing and doddering

is that ailing is an ailment while doddering is a shaking or trembling movement, as of old age.

As verbs the difference between ailing and doddering

is that ailing is while doddering is .

As adjectives the difference between ailing and doddering

is that ailing is sickly; sick; ill; unwell while doddering is mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile.

ailing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An ailment.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

    • Anagrams

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    doddering

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age.
  • * 2001 , Seth Kohn, Escape on the Silk Road (page 7)
    • Now that he was next in line to the minister of state security himself, an 82 year old man whose dodderings Fang graciously covered up to save everyone's face, Fang had a huge problem.