AILING WIFE collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)

collocation in English

meanings of ailing and wife

ailing

adjective

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/ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/us

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/ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/

experiencing difficulty ...

wife

uk

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/waɪf/us

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/waɪf/

the woman that you are ...

Examples of ailing wife

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Take a man who has an ailing wife requiring constant treatment.

This is due to the increasing frailty of old age and an ailing wife.

How can they happily see their children getting their prescriptions free when the ailing wife of a man earning £10 or £12 a week has to pay for her prescriptions?

Ultimately, only a maid who had been nursing his ailing wife joined him on his heavenly journey.

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The doting husband is devoted to taking care of his ailing wife, who is losing her ability to remember.

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But his ailing wife believes or rather chooses to believe that her son who died twenty years ago has come back.

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He purcahsed the house in the hope that the country air would cure his ailing wife.

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Murray stopped practising law in 1960 to care better for his ailing wife, who died in 1962.

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Lim stated that he was resigning in order to care for his ailing wife and parents, and was considering returning to his medical practice.

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Soon after, a minister passing through discovered his ailing wife's health was restored after drinking from a local spring.

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