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Be sick   /bi sɪk/   Listen
Be sick

verb
1.
Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.  Synonyms: barf, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up.  "He purged continuously" , "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"  Antonym: keep down.






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"Be sick" Quotes from Famous Books



... will be sick of me soon; I cannot help it. I have been off my work for some time, and re-read the Edinburgh Eleven, and had a great mind to write a parody and give you all your sauce back again, and see how you would like it yourself. And then I read (for the first time—I ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... speak of the evils for which self-indulgence was a preparation would only make her father sneer at her for a second Hannah More. It was a language he did not understand; and as to the physical unwholesomeness, he simply did not choose to believe it. She almost wished Alwyn would for once be sick enough to frighten him, but that never happened, nor would he accept nurse's statement of the boy being ...
— Nuttie's Father • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Mona inquired, and wondering if he was going to be sick, for he looked pale, and seemed ...
— True Love's Reward • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... has extended to the Ancre, and the Crown Prince, reduced to the position of a pawn in Hindenburg's game, maintains a precarious hold on the remote suburbs of Verdun. Well may he be sick, after nine months of futile carnage, of a name which already ranks ...
— Mr. Punch's History of the Great War • Punch

... Lead us again, O Man-cub, for we be sick of this lawlessness, and we would be the ...
— The Jungle Book • Rudyard Kipling


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