I.
(esp. BrE ) adj. ⇨ See also ↑ sick
VERBS
▪ appear , be , feel , look , seem
▪ lie
▪
He was lying ~ in bed.
▪ become , be taken ( BrE ), fall , get , grow
▪ remain
▪ make sb
▪
I can't eat bananas. They make me ~. ( esp. BrE )
▪
That type of government corruption makes me ~.
( figurative , esp. AmE )
ADVERB
▪ critically , dangerously , desperately , extremely , gravely , really , seriously , severely , terribly , very
▪
His mother is seriously ~ in the hospital.
▪ almost
▪
Robyn was almost ~ with excitement and outrage.
▪ pretty , quite , rather , slightly
▪ genuinely
▪ violently
▪
She was taken violently ~ and had to be put to bed.
▪ acutely
▪ chronically
▪
chronically ~ patients
▪ fatally , incurably , mortally , terminally
▪
a hospice for the terminally ~
▪ mentally , physically
▪
the problems faced by mentally ~ people
PREPOSITION
▪ with
▪
He fell ~ with cholera in 1849.
▪ from
▪
They arrive at the hospital ~ from malnutrition.
Ill is used with these nouns: ↑ effect , ↑ feeling , ↑ fortune , ↑ health , ↑ luck , ↑ omen , ↑ person , ↑ relative , ↑ temper , ↑ will
II.
adv.
Ill is used with these adjectives: ↑ informed , ↑ suited
Ill is used with these verbs: ↑ afford