ailing wife

collocation in English

meaningsofailingandwife

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ailing
adjective
uk
/ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/us
/ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/
experiencing difficulty ...
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wife
noun[C]
uk
/waɪf/us
/waɪf/
the woman that you are ...
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(Definition ofailingandwifefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofailing wife

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Take a man who has anailingwiferequiring constant treatment.
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This is due to the increasing frailty of old age and anailingwife.
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How can they happily see their children getting their prescriptions free when theailingwifeof a man earning £10 or £12 a week has to pay for her prescriptions?
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Ultimately, only a maid who had been nursing hisailingwifejoined him on his heavenly journey.
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The doting husband is devoted to taking care of hisailingwife, who is losing her ability to remember.
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But hisailingwifebelieves 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 hisailingwife.
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Murray stopped practising law in 1960 to care better for hisailingwife, who died in 1962.
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Lim stated that he was resigning in order to care for hisailingwifeand 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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