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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



... Eugene Sue, and met Theophile Gautier and Alphonse Karr. We saw Lamartine also, and had much friendly intercourse with Scribe, and with the kind good-natured Amedee Pichot. One day we visited in the Rue du Bac the sick and ailing Chateaubriand, whom we thought like Basil Montagu; found ourselves at the other extreme of opinion in the sculpture-room of David d'Angers; and closed that day at the house of Victor Hugo, by whom Dickens was received with infinite courtesy and grace. The ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster

... his face had struck awe into them all; they wondered how old Castanier had come by it; and now they beheld Castanier divested of his power, shrunken, wrinkled, aged, and feeble. He had drawn Claparon out of the crowd with the energy of a sick man in a fever fit; he had looked like an opium eater during the brief period of excitement that the drug can give; now, on his return, he seemed to be in the condition of utter exhaustion in which the patient dies after ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne

... man to account for his sprees of the last night, for his feats in knocking down lamp-posts and extinguishing watchmen, by this ugly demand of—'Who and what are you, sir?' And perhaps the poor man, sick and penitential for want of soda water, really finds a considerable difficulty in replying satisfactorily to the worthy beek's apostrophe. Although, at five o'clock in the evening, should the culprit be returning into the country in the ...
— Theological Essays and Other Papers v2 • Thomas de Quincey

... time the soldiers, with horses, went, and the House's took off all of her clothing and put them into water to keep them from taking her, and they had to take blankets and wrap her in them, and bring her to mother, and she took sick from that time from the long ride, and getting ...
— A Slave Girl's Story - Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold. • Kate Drumgoold

... crest and trying to be ironically gay] Story simply wont wash, my angel. You got it from the man that stole the horse. He gave it to you because he was a softy and went to bits when you played off the sick kid on him. Well, I guess that clears me. I'm not that sort. Catch me putting my neck in a noose ...
— The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet • George Bernard Shaw


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