make ill
Example Sentences
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Most people were born at home and died at home, and medicine’s principal function was to make ill people as comfortable as possible while nature healed them or killed them.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2017
But one may make ill use of hope, since the passion of hope, like the other passions, is subject to a mean and extremes.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Also, you noise abroad that my lord Arthur is slain, and that is not so, and therefore you will make ill work in the land.'
From The Book of Romance by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
Thou say'st his meat was sauc'd with thy upbraidings: Unquiet meals make ill digestions; Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; And what's a fever but a fit of madness?
From The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
It would only make ill worse to speak of it as we rode together in the litter.
From The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
