to be sick from
10
2.9
- phrasal verb
:
sentir náuseas por
- During that conversation, he admitted the Gone Baby Gone shoot had left him physically sick from stress.
- got sick from
- sick from drinking
- sick from food
Examples
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I asked him if Marcella was napping because she was sick from the heat.
Fiction book (2002) -
After eating some expired food, I began to be sick from the stomach ache that followed.
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In the morning, when I entered the kitchen, I already felt sick from the smell.
Fiction book (1997) -
Each year, millions of people in the United States get sick from contaminated food.
Blog text (22) -
Lots of people say they get sick from the flu shot, even though it's a dead vaccine.
Blog text (17) -
I have gotten brutally sick from animal products in the past.
Blog text (30) -
A month before, the last time I'd gotten sick from my period, we'd missed a ballet performance because of it.
Fiction book (1998) -
The effort shown here is terrific, but it's frankly useless if we can still be made sick from cross-contamination.
Blog text (31) -
Many others are sick from depleted uranium, one of the problems our Iraq vets suffer from.
Blog text (21) -
Many children be sick from riding the roller coaster too many times at the amusement park.
Synonyms
378
1.0
Become ill and have signs like fever or cough
296
2.3
To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth
186
6.6
To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick
148
1.0
To force food and drink up from your stomach through your mouth
109
1.7
To bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth
31
3.0
Feeling like you will throw up
9
8.4
To feel like you are going to throw up
9
5.6
To become sick suddenly
8
6.7
To try to vomit and make a retching sound
5
3.0
Begin to feel ill
4
9.5
To force food or drink out of your mouth
3
3.6
Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth
3
1.8
To be sick or slightly ill
To throw up a lot with great force
How Nauseous
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to feel nauseated or vomit because of X' is directly and transparently built from 'be' (exist in a state) + 'sick' (nauseated) + 'from' (denoting cause). This causal compositional pattern is common in many languages and follows standard English grammar, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Be sick from paints a clear picture: be sick means to feel ill or vomit and from points to the cause, like motion, a bad smell, or food. Imagine someone on a boat who feels the waves and then 'is sick from' the motion. So, it means 'to feel sick or to vomit because of' something.