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sick

1 [sik]

adjective, -er, -est, noun

–adjective

1.	afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.

2.	affected with nausea; inclined to vomit.

3.	deeply affected with some unpleasant feeling, as of sorrow, disgust, or boredom: sick at heart; to be sick of parties.

4.	mentally, morally, or emotionally deranged, corrupt, or unsound: a sick mind; wild statements that made him seem sick.

5.	characteristic of a sick mind: sick fancies.

6.	dwelling on or obsessed with that which is gruesome, sadistic, ghoulish, or the like; morbid: a sick comedian; sick jokes.

7.	of, pertaining to, or for use during sickness: He applied for sick benefits.

8.	accompanied by or suggestive of sickness; sickly: a sick pallor; the sick smell of disinfectant in the corridors.

9.	disgusted; chagrined.

10.	not in proper condition; impaired.

11.

Agriculture.

a.	failing to sustain adequate harvests of some crop, usually specified: a wheat-sick soil.

b.	containing harmful microorganisms: a sick field.

12.	Now Rare. menstruating.

–noun

13.	(used with a plural verb) sick persons collectively (usually prec. by the).

—Idioms

14.	call in sick, to notify one's place of employment by telephone that one will be absent from work because of being ill.

15.	sick and tired, utterly weary; fed up: I'm sick and tired of working so hard!

16.	sick at one's stomach, Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. nauseated.

17.	sick to one's stomach, Chiefly Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. nauseated.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME sik, sek, OE sēoc; c. D ziek, G siech, ON sjūkr, Goth siuks

Synonyms:
1. infirm, indisposed. See ill. 2. nauseous, nauseated.

Antonyms:
1. well, hale, healthy.

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2 [sik]

–verb (used with object)

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sic

1 [sik]

–verb (used with object), sicked or sicced [sikt]

, sick⋅ing or sic⋅cing.

1.	to attack (used esp. in commanding a dog): Sic 'em!

2.	to incite to attack (usually fol. by on).

Also, sick.

Origin:
1835–45; var. of seek

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sic² also sick (sĭk)

tr.v. sicced also sicked, sic·cing also sick·ing, sics also sicks

To set upon; attack.
To urge or incite to hostile action; set: sicced the dogs on the intruders.

[Dialectal variant of seek.]

sick¹ (sĭk)

adj. sick·er, sick·est

1. Suffering from or affected with a physical illness; ailing.
2. Of or for sick persons: sick wards.
3. Nauseated.
4. Mentally ill or disturbed.
5. Unwholesome, morbid, or sadistic: a sick joke; a sick crime.
6. Deeply distressed; upset: sick with worry.
7. Disgusted; revolted.
8. Weary; tired: sick of it all.
9. Pining; longing: sick for his native land.
10. In need of repairs: a sick ship.
11. Constituting an unhealthy environment for those working or residing within: a sick office building.
1. Mentally ill or disturbed.
2. Unwholesome, morbid, or sadistic: a sick joke; a sick crime.
3. Deeply distressed; upset: sick with worry.
4. Disgusted; revolted.
5. Weary; tired: sick of it all.
6. Pining; longing: sick for his native land.
7. In need of repairs: a sick ship.
8. Constituting an unhealthy environment for those working or residing within: a sick office building.
Defective; unsound: a sick economy.
1. Deeply distressed; upset: sick with worry.
2. Disgusted; revolted.
3. Weary; tired: sick of it all.
4. Pining; longing: sick for his native land.
5. In need of repairs: a sick ship.
6. Constituting an unhealthy environment for those working or residing within: a sick office building.
1. In need of repairs: a sick ship.
2. Constituting an unhealthy environment for those working or residing within: a sick office building.
Unable to produce a profitable yield of crops: sick soil.

n. (used with a pl. verb)
Sick people considered as a group. Often used with the.

[Middle English, from Old English sēoc.]

sick² (sĭk)

v. Variant of sic².

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Sick

Sick\, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se['o]c; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj?kr, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]

1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.

Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --Mark i. 30.

Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv. 18.

2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.

3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.

He was not so sick of his master as of his work. --L'Estrange.

4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.

So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. --Fuller.

Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital.

Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick.

Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war.

Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea.

Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick.

Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness.

Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]

Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

Sick

Sick\, n. Sickness. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Sick

Sick\, v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] --Shak.

Language Translation for : sick

Spanish: mareado,

German: Brechreiz verspüren,

Japanese: むかつく

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sick (v.)

"set upon" (sick him!), 1845, dialectal variant of seek.

sick (adj.)

"unwell," O.E. seoc, from P.Gmc. *seukaz, of uncertain origin. The general Gmc. word (cf. O.N. sjukr, Dan. syg, O.S. siok, O.Fris. siak, M.Du. siec, O.H.G. sioh, Goth. siuks "sick, ill"), but in Ger. and Du. displaced by krank "weak, slim," probably originally with a sense of "twisted, bent" (see crank). Meaning "having an inclination to vomit" is from 1614; sense of "tired or weary (of something)" is from 1597; phrase sick and tired of is attested from 1783. Meaning "mentally twisted" is from 1551 (though sense of "spiritually or morally corrupt" was in O.E.), revived 1955. Sick joke is from 1959; sicko (n.) is from 1977. Sickening "causing revulsion" is first recorded 1789. The noun meaning "those who are sick" was in O.E. Sickness is O.E. seocnesse; sickly "ailing" is recorded from c.1350.

Main Entry: sick
Pronunciation: 'sik
Function: adjective
1 a : affected with disease or ill health b : of, relating to, or intendedfor use in sickness sick ward> c : affected with nausea : inclined to vomit or being in the act of vomiting <sick to one's stomach> sick in the car>
2 : mentally or emotionally unsound or disordered

sick (sĭk)
adj. sick·er, sick·est

Suffering from or affected with a disease or disorder.
Of or for sick persons.
Nauseated.
Mentally ill or disturbed.
Constituting an unhealthy environment for those working or residing within, as of a building.

sick

In addition to the idioms beginning with sick, also see call in sick; get sick; make one sick; worried sick.

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