Meaning of SICK
Pronunciation: | | sik
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- [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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| Synonyms: | | 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 |
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| Antonyms: | | keep down, well | |
| See Also: | | egest, eliminate, excrete, pass, people, unfit, unhealthy | |
Products Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | Sick Presents a history of the sport and an examination of the lifestyle, attitudes, and passions of its enthusiasts more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| Definition: | | Dreaming that you or others are sick indicates discordance and trouble in your life. It may also signal a part of yourself that needs to be healed, either physically or mentally. Perhaps you are wallowing in your own self-pity. You need to quit feeling sorry for yourself. |
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