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Sick   /sɪk/   Listen
Sick

adjective
(compar. sicker; superl. sickest)
1.
Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.  Synonym: ill.
2.
Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit.  Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish.
3.
Affected with madness or insanity.  Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged.
4.
Having a strong distaste from surfeit.  Synonyms: disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of.  "Fed up with their complaints" , "Sick of it all" , "Sick to death of flattery" , "Gossip that makes one sick" , "Tired of the noise and smoke"
5.
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble.  Synonyms: pale, pallid, wan.  "A pale sun" , "The late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street" , "A pallid sky" , "The pale (or wan) stars" , "The wan light of dawn"
6.
Deeply affected by a strong feeling.  "She was sick with longing"
7.
Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror.  Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre.  "The grim aftermath of the bombing" , "The grim task of burying the victims" , "A grisly murder" , "Gruesome evidence of human sacrifice" , "Macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages" , "Macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
noun
1.
People who are sick.
verb
1.
Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.  Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up.  "He purged continuously" , "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"



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"Sick" Quotes from Famous Books



... then visible knee-deep in ferns, then gone again, ran a man. She knew it was young Ugh-lomi by the fair colour of his hair, and there was red upon his face. Somehow his frantic flight and that scarlet mark made her feel sick. And then nearer, running heavily and breathing hard, came another man. At first she could not see, and then she saw, foreshortened and clear to her, Uya, running with great strides and his eyes staring. He was not going after Ugh-lomi. His face was ...
— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells

... better than elsewhere, and more carefully cultivated; in the time of sowing they are governed by the moon, the sprouting of grain, and many other ancient usages. They live by hunting and fishing, and they are long- lived. If they fall sick, they cure themselves without medicine, by the heat of the fire, and their death at last comes from extreme old age. We judge them to be very affectionate and charitable towards their relatives—making loud lamentations ...
— The Voyage of Verrazzano • Henry C. Murphy

... inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ...
— Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I • Francis Augustus Cox

... endure him. The nymph at length returned to her parents at Birmingham, and was soon forgotten. Business taking Johnson to Birmingham on the death of his own father, and calling upon his coy mistress there, he found her father dying. He passed all his leisure hours at Mr. Porter's, attending his sick bed, and in a few months after his death, asked Mrs. Johnson's consent to marry the old widow. After expressing her surprise at a request so extraordinary—"No, Sam, my willing consent you will never have to so preposterous a union. ...
— Immortal Memories • Clement Shorter

... did not come to save mankind from sin, but to show us that sin is a thing imagined by mortal mind, that it is an illusion which can be overcome, like sickness and death. It was by his understanding of the truths of Christian Science that Christ remained sinless, healed the sick, and that he "demonstrated" over death in the sepulcher and rose on the third day. His sacrifice had no more efficacy than that of any other man who dies as a result of his labors to bring a new truth into the world, and we profit by his death only as we realize the nothingness of sickness, ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 • Various


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