8 Commonly confused words about Illness with Sentences

Do you often get confused with words like dose and doze, affect and effect?

One of the biggest reasons for that to happen is the similar sounds produced by them being homophones.

Read on to know the correct meaning of each of these words, the difference between their meanings and some easy examples to help you master them.

1. Pain and Pane

Pain is an uncomfortable feeling that you experience due to injury or disease in some part of the body.
    
For e.g. My friend is suffering from an incurable back pain since he met with an accident.

Pane - A pane is a wooden frame in door or window which is fitted with glass.
  
For e.g. While playing Cricket, Alex hit the ball so hard that it struck and broke the windowpane of my living room.

2. Dose and Doze

Dose - Usually, when we visit a doctor, he prescribes the medicine and its dose. Dose actually means a measured amount of medicine or drug to be  taken.
  
For e.g. She was prescribed to take a 50 microgram dose of ibuprofen for 15 days to cure her wrist pain.

Doze - To fall in a light sleep unintentionally or asleep for a while.
    
For e.g. The night watchman was dozing off when the police arrived.

3. Addicted and Devoted

Addicted is a negative habit to depend physically or psychologically on some drugs, like, heroine, opium etc.
    
For e.g. It is getting a trend among teenagers to get addicted to smoking and alcoholism.

Devoted - When you focus on any particular activity, area or person completely, you are said to be devoted to them.

Being devoted does not refer to only personal relationships but it shows the dedication or attachment with someone or something you have.

For e.g. Cookbooks are devoted to recipes, poets are devoted to poetries and so on.

For e.g. Nikita is a good dancer and she is devoted to Kathakali form of dance.

4. Affect and Effect

When you are affected by something, it produces an effect.

Affect (verb) means to change or make a difference to something.  

An effect (noun) is something that occurs due to a cause.
  
For e.g. The newly discovered virus affects the respiratory system of the patient making him breathless.

When something has an effect over you, that means, it will have some consequences or causes on you.

For e.g. Can you list some of the effects of air pollution on human health?

5. Allay, Alley and Alloy

All these words just have a different vowel in between.

Allay - We use allay in context of feelings like fear, suspicion or worry. It means to diminish or lessen your pain or hunger.
    
For e.g. You have to study hard to allay your examination worries.

Alley - An alley is a narrow lane or path between row of houses or between bushes in the park.
    
For e.g. The alley behind the building is full of garbage since last week, which may spread diseases in the locality.

Alloy is a mixture of two metals/non- metals/metalloid, with equal composition.
    
For e.g. Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc.

6. Advice and Advise

Advice - If you offer guidance or recommendation about a particular situation to someone else, you are said to give an advice to them.

For e.g. My advice to you is to just take a healthy diet rather than going after the fad.    

And, if someone advices you, it means you have been advised by them for something.
   
For e.g. The nutritionist advised the patient to follow the proper diet for immediate recovery.

7. Sickness and Sickliness

Sickness is a situation when someone is in a state of being ill with unhealthy body conditions.
    
For e.g. After completing the treatment against pneumonia, as prescribed by the doctor, she is recovering from sickness.
   
Sickliness is a condition where you become sick or physically
weak due to some chronic disease.

For e.g. Owing to his sickliness, he may fail to grab better career opportunities.

8. Recover and Re-cover

Recover - Recovering means to get back in normal condition after illness or injury.
    
For e.g. Yuvraaj is not a part of the cricket team selected for Srilanka visit. He is recovering from a ligament tear in his ankle.
  
Re-cover - When you put a new cover on something or wrap it more than once, it is called as re-covering.
    
For e.g. My old tool kit box looks absolutely new. I just got it re-covered at a local shop.