sick¹ /sik/

1. Unwell, ill
2. Diseased
3. Astonishing, extraordinary (slang)
4. Vomiting or inclined to vomit
5. Pining
6. Mortified
7. Disgusted
8. Thoroughly wearied
9. Out of condition
10. Sickly
11. Of or for people who are ill
12. (of humour, comedy, a joke, etc) gruesome, macabre, tending to exploit topics not normally joked about, such as illness, death, etc
13. Disappointed (informal)
14. Excellent (slang)

To grow sick

To vomit (with up)

Vomited matter

sickˈen transitive verb

1. To make sick
2. To disgust
3. To make weary of anything

1. To become sick
2. To be disgusted (with at)
3. To become disgusting or tedious
4. To become weakened

sickˈener noun

1. Something that provokes nausea, disgust, etc
2. A poisonous toadstool (Russula emetica)

sickˈening noun and adjective

sickˈeningly adverb

sickˈie noun (informal)

1. A day's sick leave (orig Aust and NZ)
2. A sick person, whether mentally or physically (N American)

sickˈish adjective

sickˈishly adverb

sickˈishness noun

sickˈlied adjective

sickˈlily adverb

sickˈliness noun

sickˈly adjective

1. Inclined to be ailing
2. Feeble
3. Languid
4. Pallid
5. Suggestive of sickness
6. Slightly or insipidly sickening
7. Mawkish
8. Of sickness or the sick

1. In a sick manner
2. Feebly

1. To make sickly-looking, impart an unhealthy hue to
2. To make sentimental or mawkish

sickˈness noun

sickˈo noun (pl sickˈos) (chiefly N American)

1. A mentally ill person
2. A crazy or deranged person
3. A pervert

1. Perverted
2. Macabre

sick bag noun

A small paper bag, provided for each passenger on an aircraft, which may be used by those suffering from travel sickness to vomit into

sick bay noun

1. A compartment for sick and wounded on a ship (also sick berth)
2. An infirmary or sanatorium at a boarding school, etc

sickˈbed noun

A bed on which someone lies sick

sick benefit or sickness benefit noun

A benefit paid to someone who is out of work through illness

sick building syndrome noun

A set of symptoms, such as headaches, dizziness and general fatigue, experienced by occupants of buildings which have inadequate ventilation or air-conditioning

sickˈ-fallen adjective (archaic)

Struck with sickness

sick-feathˈered adjective

(of birds) with immature feathers at moulting

sick flag noun

A quarantine flag

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