sick
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- adjective
- /sɪk/
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- Especially when you are sick and you have no money and you don't have a job.
- get sick
- sick leave
- become sick
So Louis Pasteur was you get sick because of germs.
- So Louis Pasteur was you get sick because of germs.
- Naomi, my mother, you are sick, but you're not dead.
- And she was like, yeah, sick, sweating, tired, achy.
- I have been so sick for four days.
- He just got, you know, sick and died very rapidly.
- She wants to be inclusive of these sick people at the People's House.
- Six of them became sick and three of them died.
- And these people would become infected and sick with smallpox.
- And then I came and I became not sick at all.
- Like I don't want people to think I'm this always sick, always.
- I go into children being sick, I go into parents dying.
Examples
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I have been so sick for four days.
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Some individuals become irritable when they are sick and may be hard to please.
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When he was little, he was sick all the time.
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No, Will got really sick, so now we're back.
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Six of them became sick and three of them died.
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Meanwhile, his son is really sick back in the village.
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Well, since we're both sick, no harm in this.
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My mother was very sick with pneumonia.
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OK, so when you're sick, what's happening?
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My mother was very sick with pneumonia.
Synonyms
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Not feeling well because of sickness
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5.3
Feeling slightly ill and not your usual self
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Feeling slightly sick or uncomfortable
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5.6
Having poor health and often getting sick
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6.5
Feeling a little unwell and not your usual self
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8.2
Feeling slightly sick or not well
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6.7
Slightly ill in the stomach and likely to throw up
Feeling ill or not well
Feeling slightly ill or unwell
Very ill or very fed up with something
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Archaic
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6.5
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 Sick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sick comes from an old English word seoc that meant 'ill' or 'diseased', so it still means 'unwell' today.