sick person
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1.0
- noun
- /sɪk ˈpɜrsən/
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- The nurse checked on each sick person to ensure they were comfortable.
- a poor sick person
- take a sick person
I have people writing me, people who are sick, people I go and visit and try to help.
- I have people writing me, people who are sick, people I go and visit and try to help.
- Desperately sick people just keep breathing.
- The interaction of a lockdown and a lot of sick people with the economy, also very complex.
- He dismantled USAID which helped America give aid to the poorest, sickest people in the world.
- And I'm like, no, you know, it's not the sign of an involved society to kill sick people.
- I said, you know, medicine is fantastic if you're helping sick people become unsick, you're treating cancer, you're treating diabetes.
- And if we move forward, the sick person or depressed person will stick behind.
- So, you know, they were not obviously sick people, not obviously medically not qualified people.
- I see the value in that historically sick people being a minority everywhere that they exist.
- They absolutely loved the video, loved the Guzman's old people, you know, old sick people saying that'll video.
Examples
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How do you heal the sick people who come to see you?
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Who'll take care of all the sick people?
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And we have too many sick people in this country.
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I have people writing me, people who are sick, people I go and visit and try to help.
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There are sick people living in this building.
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A lot of sick people out there.
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Life has to go on even where there are old people and sick people.
Fiction book (1992) -
And of course, the perspective of a physician is to see a sick person and to treat them.
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Under these arches a great many sick people were lying.
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The people who are hungry need bread, uneducated people need knowledge, and sick people need hospitals.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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1.9
A person who is getting medical care from a doctor or hospital
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3.2
A person who has pain, illness, or hardship
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3.2
A person who is sick and needs medical care
Antonyms
How Recovered
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who is suffering from an illness' is directly and transparently derived from the adjective 'sick' modifying the noun 'person'; the composition follows standard noun phrase rules in English. This is a basic, cross-linguistically common pattern that a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand.
Etymology
Sick person is a simple compound made by putting sick before person to name someone who is not well. Imagine a person in bed or at the doctor's, and that clear picture shows why it means 'a person who is suffering from an illness'.