to sick
- verb
- /sɪk/
- After eating the spoiled food, I felt sick and had to rush to the bathroom to sick up.
Examples
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The other man just watched, then sicked up all over the ground.
Fiction book (1990) -
and I was one of them. We were so sick that we were just laying down and just vomiting. It was unbelievable.
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And then yesterday she was sick twice, twice yesterday.
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Some places make you sick, make you throw up, make your heart race.
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I can remember several of us kids would become sick, we'd throw up.
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And and then I got unbelievably sick with food poisoning, like deathly sick.
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"He recounts how, after breakfast, Babs sicked up her food for the third time already on the cruise.
Fiction book (2002) -
Eggy, an alien just sicked up in my palms.
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The nauseating smell made him sick, and he quickly covered his mouth.
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When she got car sick, she couldn't help but sick all over the back seat.
Synonyms
To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth
To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick
To force food and drink up from your stomach through your mouth
To bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth
To force food or liquid out of the stomach through the mouth
To throw up what is in the stomach
To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach
To bring food back out of your mouth because you feel sick
To be sick and bring food up from your stomach
Throw up violently many times because you feel sick or drink too much
To bring food or liquid from the stomach back into the mouth
To force food or drink out of your mouth
To throw up when you feel sick
To throw up food and drink from your stomach
Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth
To force something out of the mouth, like saliva or vomit
To throw up a lot with great force
To push food or drink out of the mouth because you are sick
To bring food from the stomach up through the mouth, often to feed young or when sick
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
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
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Sick as a verb comes from the idea 'to be sick' and the related verb sicken ('to make ill'), so it can mean to vomit or to force out the stomach's contents.