About The Word Sick
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Sick
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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. |
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