Definitions for sick

Definitions for (noun) sick

Main entry: sick

Definition: people who are sick

Usage: they devote their lives to caring for the sick


Definitions for (verb) sick

Main entry: upchuck, vomit, vomit up, retch, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, cast, cat, chuck, sick, spew, spue, throw up, barf, be sick, disgorge, honk

Definition: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Usage: After drinking too much, the students vomited; He purged continuously; The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night


Definitions for (adj) sick

Main entry: gruesome, grim, grisly, ghastly, sick, macabre

Definition: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

Usage: ghastly wounds; the grim aftermath of the bombing; the grim task of burying the victims; a grisly murder; gruesome evidence of human sacrifice; macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages; macabre tortures conceived by madmen


Main entry: sick

Definition: deeply affected by a strong feeling

Usage: sat completely still, sick with envy; she was sick with longing


Main entry: disgusted, tired of, sick, sick of, fed up

Definition: having a strong distaste from surfeit

Usage: grew more and more disgusted; fed up with their complaints; sick of it all; sick to death of flattery; gossip that makes one sick; tired of the noise and smoke


Main entry: disturbed, demented, crazy, mad, unbalanced, unhinged, sick, brainsick

Definition: affected with madness or insanity

Usage: a man who had gone mad


Main entry: pale, pallid, wan, sick

Definition: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble

Usage: the pale light of a half moon; a pale sun; the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street; a pallid sky; the pale (or wan) stars; the wan light of dawn


Main entry: sick, ill

Definition: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

Usage: ill from the monotony of his suffering


Main entry: nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickish, queasy

Definition: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit


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