单词 | sick |
释义 | sick (once / 66 pages) adjnv Sick describes someone who's not well, suffering from some kind of illness. You shouldn't go to school when you're sick. If you're sick in bed, you're ill. While sick usually refers to people with physical or mental illnesses, it can also be used to describe an object or system that isn't working right, like a sick economy. Sick can also mean that you're tired of something, like a song you have heard too many times — you're sick of it. Sick is also slang used to describe something that is visually impressive, like a sick hockey goal. WORD FAMILYsick: sicked, sicken, sicker, sickest, sicking, sickish, sickness, sicks+/sicken: sickened, sickening, sickens/sickening: sickeningly, sickeningness/sickish: sickishly/sickness: sicknesses USAGE EXAMPLES“When you got sick and indigent, you wound up in places like that.” Washington Times(Dec 01, 2016) She was caring for her grandson, who was sick with a fever. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) In 1970s Britain, that sometimes meant literally carrying sick or dying lawmakers into the Parliament building. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1adj affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function Syn|Ant ill unfit not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition unhealthynot in or exhibiting good health in body or mind afflicted, strickengrievously affected especially by disease aguishaffected by ague ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwellsomewhat ill or prone to illness air sick, airsick, carsick, seasickexperiencing motion sickness autisticcharacteristic of or affected with autism bedfast, bedrid, bedridden, sick-abedconfined to bed (by illness) bilious, liverish, liverysuffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress bronchiticsuffering from or prone to bronchitis consumptiveafflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis convalescent, recoveringreturning to health after illness or debility delirious, hallucinatingexperiencing delirium diabeticsuffering from diabetes dizzy, giddy, vertiginous, woozyhaving or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling dyspepticsuffering from dyspepsia faint, light, light-headed, lightheaded, swooningweak and likely to lose consciousness feverish, feveroushaving or affected by a fever funnyexperiencing odd bodily sensations goutysuffering from gout greenlooking pale and unhealthy laid low, strickenput out of action (by illness) laid upill and usually confined milk-sickaffected with or related to milk sickness nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickishfeeling nausea; feeling about to vomit palsiedaffected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor paralytic, paralyzedaffected with paralysis paraplegicsuffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord rachitic, ricketyaffected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets scrofulousafflicted with scrofula sneezyinclined to sneeze spasticsuffering from spastic paralysis tubercular, tuberculousconstituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus unhealednot healed upsetmildly physically distressed well in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury fitphysically and mentally sound or healthy healthyhaving or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease asymptomatic, symptomlesshaving no symptoms of illness or disease cured, healed, recoveredfreed from illness or injury 2adj feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit Syn nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish ill affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function 3adj affected with madness or insanity Syn brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged insane afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement 4adj having a strong distaste from surfeit sick of it all sick to death of flattery gossip that makes one sick Syn disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of displeased not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure 5adj shockingly repellent; inspiring horror Syn ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre alarming frightening because of an awareness of danger 6adj deeply affected by a strong feeling sat completely still, sick with envy she was sick with longing Syn affected, moved, stirred, touched being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion 7adj (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble Syn pale, pallid, wan weak wanting in physical strength 8n people who are sick they devote their lives to caring for the sick Hyper people (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively 9v eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth Syn|Ant|Hyper barf, be sick, chuck, disgorge, throw up, vomit up keep down manage not to throw up egest, eliminate, excrete, pass eliminate from the body |
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