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Sick   /sɪk/   Listen
adjective
Sick  adj.  (compar. sicker; superl. sickest)  
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. Note: (These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.)
Synonyms: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.



noun
Sick  n.  Sickness. (Obs.)



verb
Sick  v. i.  To fall sick; to sicken. (Obs.)






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"Sick" Quotes from Famous Books



... Turns me sick to think of it," said Russell, stroking his forehead with his hand. "Did I tell you about what happened to me the night after the attack, up in ...
— One Man's Initiation--1917 • John Dos Passos

... had left and there was now no possibility of her returning owing to the lateness of the season, and she carried in her Lieut. Evans, sick with scurvy, and five other officers and three men who were returning home this year. This left only four officers and four men at Cape Evans, in addition to the four ...
— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard

... through a narrow, dirty street in another part of the city. A group of ragged children were collected round one who was crying bitterly. I made my way through them and spoke to the little boy. He told me his little sister was dead, his father was sick, and he was hungry. Here was sorrow enough for any one; but the little boy stood there with his bare feet, his sunbleached hair and tattered clothes, and smiled almost cheerfully through the tears which washed white streaks amid the darkness of his dirty face. He led me to his home. Oh, ...
— Small Means and Great Ends • Edited by Mrs. M. H. Adams

... perfect health for all the hardships which he underwent before and during the battle. All this made the good father say that he was very content to die, and especially because he had not seen the abominations, blasphemies, and shameless acts of that rabble. There was one sick, Tagal, who was the leader of the enemy's fleet, and on this occasion he ended his evil life, to commence payment for his atrocities, blasphemies, and daring. On the other hand, a younger brother of his who was mortally wounded asked ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (Vol 27 of 55) • Various

... passed thus; but by degrees, as the sun declined towards the horizon, the wind died away into a gentle breeze and the sea became free from breakers. But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hardly able to hold the rudder, when suddenly I saw a line of high ...
— Frankenstein - or The Modern Prometheus • Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley


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