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sick Adjective

— If a person, animal, or plant is sick, it has a disease and is not healthy. I'm sorry, I'm too sick to go to work today. If you're sick, you should go and see a doctor. — A way of saying something is bad. (Could mean one or both of the following.) — # If something is sick it makes you feel like vomiting. Usually this is not literal, but just means very bad. — #: Oh sick! There is dog shit all over everything. — # Sick can mean similar to person who is mentally ill (crazy), as an insult. This can also mean something bad that a crazy person might do. — #: Killing children is just plain sick. — #: That guy is really sick in the head. — You say this about something that is cool. That is, something you like or see as very good. That song is sick!

sick

— adjective (= ill) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function ill from the monotony of his suffering — adjective (= nauseated) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit — noun people who are sick they devote their lives to caring for the sick — adjective (= disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of) having a strong distaste from surfeit grew more and more disgusted 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 — adjective (= mad) affected with madness or insanity a man who had gone mad — adjective deeply affected by a strong feeling sat completely still, sick with envy she was sick with longing — adjective (= pale, pallid, wan) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble the pale light of a half moon 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 — verb (= vomit, purge, regurgitate) 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 — adjective (= ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror ghastly wounds 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

Synonyms sick synonyms

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sick English » English

ill painful unwell diseased ailing vomit unhealthy sickly puke patient infirm weak be sick hurt throw up sore queasy pain bad sickness sick person regurgitate nauseous morbid fall ill be ill barf vomit up thin spue spew sickish sick of regorge poorly pallid nauseated mad macabre indisposed illness grim frail feel sick feeble fed up disgusted cat cast wan

Topics sick topics

What do people use sick to talk about?

Person Healthy

Bad, immoral

What words describe someone who is very bad?

twisted sick perverted depraved terrible

Person Healthy

Cause of disease

What words refer to causing someone to be sick?

make someone sick spread sickness infect be infectious be contagious communicable

Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Lose consciousness

What causes someone to lose consciousness?

hit on head be sick be in pain anesthesia

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry

What words refer to causing someone to feel angry?

anger (v) make someone angry make someone mad aggravate antagonize chafe cross someone disturb embitter enrage exasperate gall incense infuriate insult (v) irk madden needle nettle offend cause offense peeve perturb pique provoke rankle rile vex make your blood boil make you sick get someone going get someone's back up wind someone up be like a red flag to a bull

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Angry

Annoyed

What words refer to feeling annoyed?

be annoyed feel annoyed be fed up be tired of be sick of have had enough of have had it have had it up to here be at the end of your tether

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Worried

What words refer to being very worried?

anxiety attack really worried really scared really wondering despair despairing desperate desperation be worried sick be at your wits' end frantic frantically

Examples sick examples

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Simple sentences

If you eat so much, you'll get sick.

If you keep on drinking like that, you'll get sick.

He comes to see his sick friend day after day.

The bus ride made her feel so sick that she began to vomit.

Because he's sick, he can't come.

I am sick.

I don't have time to be sick.

Tom is sick in bed.

She's afraid of getting sick again.

He couldn't attend the meeting because he was sick.

I didn't go to school because I was sick.

Since he was feeling sick, he stayed in bed.

He was sick of being vilified all the time by people who were jealous of his ability.

She got sick this weekend.

You're sick. You have to rest.

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

You should take care of your sick mother.

I'm sick of listening to your complaints.

Are you feeling sick?

Do you feel sick?

I'm getting sick and tired of Ms Maruta and her noisy friends.

The patient is sick beyond all hope.

I'm sick of listening to her complaints.

Cheap sake makes you sick.

I am sick of your complaint.

Take this medicine in case you get sick.

Because she felt sick.

Movie subtitles

There was disease and famine, (so sick) but also in this village lived a simple farmer who would change everything.

After traveling for so long, the Mormons ran out of fresh water, and become sick. with dysentery.

Oh no, the prophet Joseph Smith is now getting sick!

I think she thinks that I could've been trying to scare her, play a sick joke on her.

I mean, I know. let's get all the sick people, we'll put them in one place, and then have them treated by some semi-socialized beaker head with a God complex.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I'm sick and tired of it.

Yeah, so I got into school, and then my dad got sick, so now I'm working my way through school here.

My dad is sick.

Maid called in sick.

There are some sick people in this world.

To visit his sick aunt.

We were told he had a sick aunt.

Doctor, my son's sick.

He requested a doctor to treat his sick mother.

Yeah, well, parts of it. Maid called in sick.

She was sick, Esme.

I've seen those people, they really are sick.

No, I got a sick cow again.

His kitten's been sick for some time. They don't have money to take her to the vet.

Called in sick this morning.

So as not to raise suspicion he takes the medicine Monro brought, and consequently becomes very sick.

Notice how the sick person is laying naked in bed.

Very sick!

I've heard about you for years, and I'm getting pretty sick of it.

You've held me back for years and I'm sick of it!

You sick, maybe?

Lying to Nick is making me, like, physically sick.

We've been worried sick.

If this is some kind of sick training session, you better. you better tell me!

She'll get sick, and get a fat belly.

I felt sick when I saw them, and they're better off than Susan.

I was just so sick with my other two, I thought I'd try it in advance.

You remember? She-she called in sick.

She called in, like, really, totally sick.

Hmm. I don't believe in sick.

You're sick.

No, I'm not sick.

News and current affairs

Many Europeans are sick of British vetoes.

Millions are sick and poor; many live at starvation levels.

Too many of the sick are untreated.

And when the world's largest economy is sick - and it is now very sick - the entire world suffers.

Ten years ago, Germany was like France is today - the sick man of Europe.

An old and sick man who was to die a few months later, he acted with a sense of urgency to reach a deal that would relieve his inexperienced son of the burden of struggling for the recovery of the Golan Heights.

A sick man whose rule at home is being challenged by Islamist opponents, he decided that international ostracism and domestic troubles is too explosive a combination for his son, a spoiled playboy, to handle.

The old and sick would be killed by euthanasia; the rest sterilised and vaccinated.

Those not adopted would share the fate of the sick and old.

Therapeutic cloning is intended to heal the sick.

To try to cure it by spending less is like trying to cure a sick person by bleeding.

The eight years of my presidency, indeed, have been devoted to transforming the sick Georgian state of its early years of independence into a healthy one.

But the doctors made no bones about what Armstrong was to receive: extremely caustic drugs that would make him sick as a dog.

While Russia retains the world's largest (if somewhat aging) arsenal of nuclear weapons, as well as a permanent seat (and thus veto power) on the UN Security Council, it is more sick than BRIC.

Furthermore, Mubarak was old and sick, and no longer enjoyed the trust of his people.

Above all, border crossings between Israel and the Palestinian territories should be reopened for the sick, for students, and for families whose members were separated by the blockade.

Buyers and sellers can find one another, schoolchildren can find information needed for their homework, and sick people can find health information.

Millions of children in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and the Western Pacific are forced into extreme poverty when a parent gets sick or dies.

Sacking your entire cabinet when everyone thinks you are home sick in bed only adds to this impression.

Chernomyrdin, an acting president whenever Yeltsin took to his sick bed, acquired excessive power insofar as Yeltsin was concerned.

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