sick
- adjective
- /sɪk/
- I'm feeling, I'm feeling a little, like, sick after this rain.
- feel sick
- make someone sick
- sick to my stomach
When I think about that time, I get so sick to my stomach because.
- When I think about that time, I get so sick to my stomach because.
- We might get physically sick, but at least we're cool, right?
- And then again, I got so sick because it was so spicy.
- Yeah, it's and in this experimental model that you become sick for three to six hours.
- Like I mean, sick to my stomach, bro, just sick over it.
- The whole the sound when someone's sick is awful.
- And I've never felt more sick in a race.
Examples
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Quite a few people get sick at first; it's nothing to be embarrassed about.
Fiction book (1991) -
After the roller coaster ride, I was sick and had to sit down for a while.
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OK, so I kind of feel sick, but it's fine.
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And so I got very sick at that job.
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My body is still, it's been like weeks and I still feel sick, which is ridiculous.
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I hurt myself and I feel sick.
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Oliver feels sick to his stomach when he figures out what Bill has in mind.
Academic text (2010) -
Still, for a moment, he felt a little sick, and bile rose in his mouth.
Fiction book (1990) -
It makes me sick to my stomach.
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Soon afterward, John's wife fell sick and had to be taken to the hospital.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
Feeling sick and likely to throw up
Feeling like you will throw up or making someone feel like that
Slightly ill in the stomach and likely to throw up
Feeling like you are about to throw up
Feeling slightly sick or disgusted after seeing something unpleasant
Very ill or very fed up with something
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Archaic
A severe headache that often makes you feel sick and unable to concentrate
A Roman Catholic ritual where a priest puts oil on a very sick person and prays for comfort
- Archaic
Sick after eating meat or drinking milk from animals that eat poisonous plants
How Nauseous
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sick comes from the same old word seoc and is used when you feel like you might vomit; think of seasick, which combines 'sea' + 'sick' to show this meaning.