sick

[Sick]

Sick describes someone who's not well, suffering from some kind of illness. You shouldn't go to school when you're sick.

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Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.

Noun
people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"

Verb
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"

Adjective S.
affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"

Adjective
not in good physical or mental health; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

Adjective S.
feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

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superl.
Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.

superl.
Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.

superl.
Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.

superl.
Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.

n.
Sickness.

v. i.
To fall sick; to sicken.


Sick

Sick , a. [Compar. Sicker ; superl. Sickest.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se'a2c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sjkr, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.] 1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever.
Behold them that are sick with famine.
2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache. 3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.
He was not so sick of his master as of his work.
4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings.
Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital. -- Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick. -- Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war. -- Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea. -- Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick. -- Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness. [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.] Syn. -- Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

Sick

Sick, n. Sickness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Sick

Sick, v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] Shak.

Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.

Sickness.

To fall sick; to sicken.

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Usage Examples

Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

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Other Usage Examples

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

Film lovers are sick people.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in ''94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.

Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

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