fall ill

verb

fall ill

verb

1

To become ill, to get sick, to sicken.

We come into contact with germ-infested surfaces all day, every day, but we don’t keep falling catastrophically ill.2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian:

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