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sick
I. \ˈsik\ adjective
(usually -er/-est)
Etymology: Middle English sik, sek, seke, from Old English sēoc; akin to Middle Dutch siec sick, Old High German siuh, sioh sick, Old Norse sjūkr sick, distressed, Gothic siuks sick, Middle Irish socht depression, silence
1.
a.
(1) : affected with disease : not well or healthy : ill, ailing, indisposed
< lay sick of a fever — Mk 1:30 (Authorized Version) >
< fell sick of an obscure depressing fever — Frank Outram & G.E.Fane >
< took sick this morning >
(2) : accompanying, indicating, or suggestive of sickness : sickly
< the sick smell of age and medicine — Irwin Shaw >
(3) : designed for or put to the use or service of a sick person
< sick chair >
< sick lamp >
< sick ward >
(4) : relating to the sick
< sick benefit >
< sick insurance >
< sick pay >
b. : affected with or attended by nausea : inclined to vomit or being in the act of vomiting : queasy — used with stomach with at, to, in, or on
< felt sick at his stomach — Ernest Hemingway >
— compare airsick, carsick, seasick
c. chiefly dialect : confined in childbed
d. : menstruating
2. : spiritually or morally unsound or corrupt
< and heal my soul diseased and sick — John Wesley >
3.
a. : affected by some strong emotion (as shame, horror, fear, or envy) to the degree that one feels nauseated or faint
< sick with fear >
< worried sick by repeated failures >
b. : having a strong distaste from surfeit : satiated — used with of
< sick of flattery >
< sick of a task >
< sick of the noise and the smoke — William Black >
c. : disgusted, chagrined
< gossip that makes one sick >
d. : depressed and longing for something
< sick for one's home >
4.
a. : mentally or emotionally unsound or disordered : morbid, unwholesome
< a sick personality >
< sick thoughts >
b. : dealing with unpleasant or macabre subjects
< sick jokes >
5. : requiring repair or replacement : defective, faulty
< a sick locomotive >
6. : weak during molting — used of a bird's feathers
7.
a. : pale or sickly in appearance or tone : sallow, wan
< a sick skin — John Updike >
< light from my torch showed his heavy square face a sick yellow — Marcia Davenport >
b.
(1) : lacking vigor : subnormal in growth or development
< a sick tree >
(2) of grain : low in viability and deteriorated in milling quality due to slightly excessive moisture content at the time of storing
< sick wheat >
c. : sickly 5a(2)
< said … finally, in a sick whisper — T.B.Costain >
d. : badly outclassed : poor — usually used with look
< observers racked up 141 species, making their previous record of 113 look sick — Time >
< a girl won … and made the speedsters look very sick — Irish Digest >
8. : spawning; broadly : poor, watery
< sick fish >
< sick oysters >
9. : being in a declining or inactive state especially after a period of excessive speculation
< a sick market >
< sick commodities >
< a sick economy >
10. : incapable of producing profitable yields of a crop because infested with disease organisms
< clover sick soils >
< ground that gets sick to melons — Market Growers Journal >
< sick valleys across the land — R.G.Struble >
11. of glass : having a cloudy appearance caused especially by impurities
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- sick to death
- sick unto death
II. noun
Etymology: Middle English sik, sek, from Old English sēoc, from sēoc, adjective, sick
1. plural sick : a sick person
< then saith he to the sick of the palsy — Mt 9:6 (Authorized Version) >
— used collectively
< the number of absentees and sick has risen — Time >
2. -s
a. : sickness
b. chiefly Britain : vomit
< a room smelling rather of sick — Elizabeth Taylor >
III. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English siken, seken, from sik, sek, adjective, sick
intransitive verb
1. obsolete : to become ill : fall sick
2. : vomit — often used with up
transitive verb
obsolete : to cause to be ill : make sick
IV. \(|)sik\
dialect Britain
variant of such
V.
variant of sic |