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病む

やむ

to fall ill; to suffer from; to be troubled by

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Examples

  1. そんなに気に病むことはないよ。

    そんなにきにやむことはないよ。

    There's no need to fret over it so much.

  2. 彼女は痛風を病んでいる。

    かのじょはつうふうをやんでいる。

    She suffers from gout.

  3. 長く胸を病んでいた祖父は、静かに息を引き取った。

    ながくむねをやんでいたそふは、しずかにいきをひきとった。

    My grandfather, long ill with his lungs, passed away quietly.

Common patterns

気に病む
to fret, to brood over
心を病む
to be mentally ill
胸を病む
to suffer from a chest complaint

Memory tip

Literary when it means physical illness; in modern speech you mostly meet it in 気に病む "to brood over" and 心を病む. Its homophone 止む is the everyday "(rain) stops".

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