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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



... 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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