Sick - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |sɪk|  American pronunciation of the word sick
Brit.  |sɪk|  British pronunciation of the word sick

noun

- people who are sick
they devote their lives to caring for the sick

verb

- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth (syn: barf, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit)

adjective

- feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit (syn: nauseous, queasy, sickish)
- affected with madness or insanity (syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged)
- having a strong distaste from surfeit (syn: disgusted)
sick of it all
sick to death of flattery
gossip that makes one sick
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble (syn: pale, pallid, wan)
- deeply affected by a strong feeling
sat completely still, sick with envy
she was sick with longing
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror (syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre)

Extra examples

He is at home sick in bed.

She is sick with the flu.

I'm too sick to go to work.

The medicine just made me sicker.

The sickest patients are in intensive care.

My poor rosebush looks sick.

She has been on the sick list all week.

The way they treat people makes me sick.

He is off sick today.

I am sorry I didn't come to your birthday party. I was sick with the flu.

He was sick in the car.

Gossips make me sick.

He was sick with fear.

We are sick of the red tape.

She felt sick of waiting.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: sick
he/she/it: sicks
present participle: sicking
past tense: sicked
past participle: sicked
adjective
comparative: sicker
superlative: sickest
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