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adjective

Sick adj. (compar. sicker; superl. sickest)

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." "Behold them that are sick with famine."

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."

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."

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.)

Synonyms: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

noun

Sick n. Sickness. (Obs.)

verb

Sick v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Sick'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sick" Quotes from Famous Books

... services, but had not arrived: "Dad didn't kill the pig." "And why not," said the teacher. "Because," replied the observing youngster, "he got well." Nearly all the cows slaughtered are tuberculous. They are killed to be eaten because too sick to longer serve as community ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Sixth Annual Meeting. Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 • Various

... sent to him did not reach him, for at the time it arrived he was on his way to the West Indies. Jennie was compelled to watch alone by Vesta's sick-bed, for although sympathetic neighbors, realizing the pathos of the situation were attentive, they could not supply the spiritual consolation which only those who truly love us can give. There was a period when Vesta appeared to be rallying, and both the physician ...

— Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser

... day, Marse Hanson, dat done took my breff all plum away; I did so. Marse Marcy he come home a purpose to go into our army; and his mother she cried and cried, and pooty quick she say: 'My deah boy, dat man Linkum mus' be whopped; dat am de facs in de case'; and den she slap him on de back and sick him on. Yes, sar. I done see dat wid my own two eyes dis ...

— Marcy The Blockade Runner • Harry Castlemon

... gasped. "What are the asses doing with the box? I shall be most frightfully sick ...

— The Hero of Garside School • J. Harwood Panting

... was organized early in 1862, first by the Hicksite Friends, to demonstrate the falsity of the commonly received report that the "Friends," being opposed to war, would not do anything for the sick and wounded. Many of the "Orthodox Friends" afterwards joined it, as well as considerable numbers from other denominations, and it proved itself a very efficient body. Mrs. Rachel S. Evans was its President, ...

— Woman's Work in the Civil War - A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience • Linus Pierpont Brockett

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