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Airing vs Ailing - What's the difference?

airing | ailing |

As verbs the difference between airing and ailing

is that airing is present participle of lang=en while ailing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between airing and ailing

is that airing is an exposure to warm or fresh air while ailing is an ailment.

As an adjective ailing is

sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

airing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) An exposure to warm or fresh air.
  • (countable) A public expression of an opinion or discussion of a subject.

    • Derived terms

    * airing cupboard

    Anagrams

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    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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