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to sick

1 7.4
To throw up
  • verb
  • /sɪk/
translation icon : vomitar
  • After eating the spoiled food, I felt sick and had to rush to the bathroom to sick up.

Examples

  • 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.

  • And then yesterday she was sick twice, twice yesterday.

  • Some places make you sick, make you throw up, make your heart race.

  • I can remember several of us kids would become sick, we'd throw up.

  • And and then I got unbelievably sick with food poisoning, like deathly sick.

  • "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.

  • The nauseating smell made him sick, and he quickly covered his mouth.

  • When she got car sick, she couldn't help but sick all over the back seat.

Synonyms

to throw up
vsto sick
  • Informal
296 2.3

To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth

is the brief neutral expression for the same act
to puke
vsto sick
  • NSFW
186 6.6

To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick

is the neutral clinical description rather than colloquial language
to vomit
vsto sick
148 1.0

To force food and drink up from your stomach through your mouth

is the common neutral word for that expulsive action
to be sick
vsto sick
109 1.7

To bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth

is the single short verb for that general action
to barf
vsto sick
  • NSFW
38 7.7

To force food or liquid out of the stomach through the mouth

is the neutral standard description rather than slangy speech
to cast
vsto sick
  • Archaic
9 9.3

To throw up what is in the stomach

focuses on the action itself rather than who performs it
to spew
vsto sick
  • Informal
9 5.7

To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach

is the neutral act without stressing forcefulness
to puke up
vsto sick
  • Informal
8 8.2

To bring food back out of your mouth because you feel sick

covers any stomach expulsion, not only recently eaten food
to chuck
vsto sick
  • UK
7 9.6

To be sick and bring food up from your stomach

is the neutral term rather than this casual expression
to puke my guts out
vsto sick
  • NSFW
7 9.9

Throw up violently many times because you feel sick or drink too much

is the general term not limited to repeated violent episodes
to regurgitate
vsto sick
5 7.7

To bring food or liquid from the stomach back into the mouth

focuses on general expulsion rather than specifically returning food
to ralph
vsto sick
  • Slang
4 9.5

To force food or drink out of your mouth

is the neutral descriptive phrase used in standard language
to honk
vsto sick
  • NSFW
4 9.3

To throw up when you feel sick

is the everyday neutral description rather than this slang
to upchuck
vsto sick
  • NSFW
3 8.8

To throw up food and drink from your stomach

is the more neutral description used in standard language
to vomit up
vsto sick
  • Informal
3 3.6

Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth

is the general term covering that expulsive action
to spue
vsto sick
  • NSFW
1 9.9

To force something out of the mouth, like saliva or vomit

restricts sense to stomach expulsion rather than other mouth material
to puke guts out
vsto sick
  • NSFW
9.2

To throw up a lot with great force

means the same act but without the violent intensity
to disgorge
vsto sick
8.7

To push food or drink out of the mouth because you are sick

is the neutral everyday description rather than this formal choice
to regorge
vsto sick
9.9

To bring food from the stomach up through the mouth, often to feed young or when sick

is the plain common term rather than the literary variant

Idioms

sick of
  • Informal
522 5.8

Tired of something because you have had too much of it

sick and tired
  • Informal
117 5.3

Feeling very annoyed because you have had too much of something

Feeling like you will throw up

13 3.4

Away from work or school because you are ill

1 8.3

Away from work because you are ill

Very disappointed and upset because things did not turn out well

Very annoyed and no longer willing to accept someone or something

Phrasal Verbs

378 1.0

Become ill and have signs like fever or cough

109 1.7

To bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth

To feel sick and want to throw up because of motion or a strong smell

Compounds

55 1.0

A person who is ill

14 2.4

A period away from work because a worker is ill

sick joke
  • Offensive
12 7.9

A joke about cruel or shocking things that many people find upsetting

2 2.5

A bed where a person lies when they are ill or recovering

sick headache
  • Archaic
1 6.5

A severe headache that often makes you feel sick and unable to concentrate

1 2.5

A small disposable bag on planes for passengers to throw up into

sick call
  • Jargon
1 5.7

A set time when soldiers report to a medic if ill

1 2.3

Money a worker receives while they are off work because they are sick

sick list
  • Archaic
1 4.8

A list of people not at work because they are ill

A Roman Catholic ritual where a priest puts oil on a very sick person and prays for comfort

4.6

Feeling sick or dizzy when flying

milk-sick
  • Archaic
9.9

Sick after eating meat or drinking milk from animals that eat poisonous plants

pig-sick
  • Informal
9.8

Very ill or very fed up with something

3.2

Money the government pays to someone who cannot work because they are ill

7.5

A room on a ship where staff treat people who are ill or injured

sick parade
  • Jargon
8.2

A daily military meeting where soldiers report illnesses to a doctor

sick-abed
  • Archaic
9.9

Lying in bed because you are ill

sick-out
  • Literature
8.2

A group of workers who call in sick to protest and ask for change

7.7

Many people are absent from work or school because they are sick, causing big problems

How Violent

to vomit
148 1.0
to sick
1 7.4
retch
1 8.4

Surface Forms

sick infinitive
sick past
sick past participle
sicking present participle
sicks third person singular

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.