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Sick Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Sick? [n] people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick" [adj] affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [adj] not in good physical or mental health; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" [adj] feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [v] 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" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Sick: afflicted \| aguish \| ailing \| airsick \| barf \| be sick \| bedfast \| bedrid \| bedridden \| bilious \| brainsick \| bronchitic \| carsick \| cast \| cat \| chuck \| consumptive \| convalescent \| crazy \| delirious \| demented \| diabetic \| disgorge \| distracted \| disturbed \| dizzy \| dyspeptic \| faint \| feverish \| feverous \| funny \| giddy \| gouty \| green \| hallucinating \| honk \| ill \| indisposed \| infirm \| insane \| laid low(p) \| laid up(p) \| light \| lightheaded \| light-headed \| liverish \| livery \| mad \| menstruating \| nauseated \| peaked(p) \| poorly(p) \| puke \| purge \| queasy \| recovering \| regorge \| regurgitate \| retch \| scrofulous \| seasick \| sick \| sick-abed \| sickish \| sickly \| sneezy \| spastic \| spew \| spue \| stricken \| swooning \| throw up \| tubercular \| tuberculous \| unbalanced \| under the weather \| unhealed \| unhinged \| unwell \| upchuck \| upset \| vertiginous \| vomit \| vomit up \| woozy Related Terms \| Find terms related to Sick: See Also \| egest \| eliminate \| excrete \| pass \| people \| unfit \| unhealthy Sick In Webster's Dictionary \Sick\, a. [Compar. {Sicker}; superl. {Sickest}.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se['o]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj?kr, 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. --Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv. 18. 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. --L'Estrange. 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. --Fuller. {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. Note: [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\, n. Sickness. [Obs.] --Chaucer. \Sick\, v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] --Shak.

Sick Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Sick?

[n] people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"
[adj] affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
[adj] not in good physical or mental health; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"
[adj] feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
[v] 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"

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Sick In Webster's Dictionary

\Sick\, a. [Compar. {Sicker}; superl. {Sickest}.] [OE. sek,
sik, ill, AS. se['o]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak,
D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj?kr, 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. --Mark i.
                                               30.

         Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv.
                                               18.

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.
                                               --L'Estrange.

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.
                                               --Fuller.

{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.

Note: [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\, n.
Sickness. [Obs.] --Chaucer.


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

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