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Meaning of 'sick' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sick [ n.]
- Sickness.
2 . Sick [ superl.]
- Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
- Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
- Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.
- Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
3 . Sick [ v. i.]
- To fall sick; to sicken.

Meaning of 'sick' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sick [ n]
Meaning (1):
- people who are sick
Example in sentence:
  • they devote their lives to caring for the sick
2 . sick [ v]
Meaning (2):
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Example in sentence:
  • After drinking too much, the students vomited;
  • He purged continuously;
  • The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
3 . sick [ a]
Meaning (3):
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
Example in sentence:
  • ill from the monotony of his suffering
4 . sick [ s]
Meaning (4):
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
Example in sentence:
  • a grisly murder;
  • ghastly wounds;
  • gruesome evidence of human sacrifice;
  • macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages;
  • macabre tortures conceived by madmen;
  • the grim aftermath of the bombing;
  • the grim task of burying the victims
Meaning (5):
- affected with madness or insanity
Example in sentence:
  • a man who had gone mad
Meaning (6):
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
Example in sentence:
  • a pale sun;
  • a pallid sky;
  • the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street;
  • the pale (or wan) stars;
  • the pale light of a half moon;
  • the wan light of dawn
Meaning (7):
- having a strong distaste from surfeit
Example in sentence:
  • fed up with their complaints;
  • gossip that makes one sick;
  • grew more and more disgusted;
  • sick of it all;
  • sick to death of flattery;
  • tired of the noise and smoke
Meaning (8):
- deeply affected by a strong feeling
Example in sentence:
  • sat completely still, sick with envy;
  • she was sick with longing

Nearby Words:

sic sicamore sicca siccate siccation siccative siccific siccity sice sicer

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