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  • 71maladie — [ maladi ] n. f. • 1150; de malade I ♦ 1 ♦ Altération organique ou fonctionnelle considérée dans son évolution, et comme une entité définissable. (Chez l homme) Maladie bénigne. ⇒ indisposition, malaise. Maladie grave, incurable, inguérissable,… …

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  • 72maux — → 3. mal ● mal, maux nom masculin (latin malum) Ce qui est contraire au bon, à la vertu ; ce qui est condamné par la morale (seulement singulier, avec article défini) : Faire le mal pour le mal. Ce qui est susceptible de nuire, de faire souffrir …

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  • 73souffrant — souffrant, ante [ sufrɑ̃, ɑ̃t ] adj. • 1690; soffrant « patient » 1120; de souffrir 1 ♦ Littér. Qui souffre (II) habituellement, qui éprouve de la peine, des tourments. L humanité souffrante. « La cause du grand peuple laborieux, souffrant »… …

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  • 74complaint — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. accusation, charge; disease, ailment, sickness, indisposition, disorder; lament, grievance (see lamentation). II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An objection] Syn. grievance, charge, criticism, reproach; see… …

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  • 75disease — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Condition of ill health Nouns 1. disease, illness, sickness, ailment, ailing; morbidity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; functional disorder. 2. condition, affliction,… …

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  • 76Unwillingness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Unwillingness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 unwillingness unwillingness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 indisposition indisposition indisposedness Sgm: N 1 disinclination disinclination aversation Sgm: N 1 nolleity nolleity no …

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  • 77slight chill —    a pretext for not keeping an engagement    An indisposition which the draughts of royal palaces seem to induce:     What shall I tell them? A slight chill?     That sounds a deal too much like    Buckingham Palace. Just say I m out.… …

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  • 78silent — 1 Silent, uncommunicative, taciturn, reticent, reserved, secretive, close, close lipped, closemouthed, tight lipped are comparable when they mean showing restraint in speaking to or with others. Silent and uncommunicative often imply a tendency… …

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  • 79intolerance — /ɪnˈtɒlərəns/ (say in toluhruhns) noun 1. lack of toleration; indisposition to tolerate contrary opinions or beliefs. 2. incapacity or indisposition to bear or endure: intolerance of heat. 3. an intolerant act. 4. an abnormal sensitivity or… …

  • 80ailment — Commonly means indisposition of body or mind; a slight illness. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. Burton, 167 Tenn. 606, 72 S.W. 778, 781. In life insurance application, term does not include mere temporary indisposition, which though requiring …

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