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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SICK, a. [Qu.Gr. squeamish, lothing.]
1. Affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach. [This is probably the primary sense of the word.] Hence,
2. Disgusted; having a strong dislike to; with of; as, to be sick of flattery; to be sick of a country life.
He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange.
3. Affected with a disease of any kind; not in health; followed by of; as to be sick of a fever.
4. Corrupted. [Not in use nor proper.]
5. The sick, the person or persons affected with the disease. The sick are healed.
SICK, v.t. To make sick. [Not in use. See Sicken.]
SICK'-BIRTH, n. In a ship of war, an apartment for the sick.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" [syn: ill, sick] [ant: well]
2: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish]
3: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
4: having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick"; "tired of the noise and smoke" [syn: disgusted, fed up, sick, sick of, tired of]
5: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn: pale, pallid, wan, sick]
6: deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"
7: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" [syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick] n
1: people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick" v
1: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English sek, sik, from Old English s?oc; akin to Old High German sioh sick Date: before 12th century 1. a. (1) affected with disease or ill health ; ailing (2) of, relating to, or intended for use in sickness <sick pay> <a sick ward> b. queasy, nauseated <sick to one's stomach> <was sick in the car> c. undergoing menstruation 2. spiritually or morally unsound or corrupt 3. a. sickened by strong emotion <sick with fear> <worried sick> b. having a strong distaste from surfeit ; satiated <sick of flattery> c. filled with disgust or chagrin <gossip makes me sick> d. depressed and longing for something <sick for one's home> 4. a. mentally or emotionally unsound or disordered ; morbid <sick thoughts> b. highly distasteful ; macabre, sadistic <sick jokes> <a sick crime> 5. lacking vigor ; sickly: as a. badly outclassed <made the competition look sick> b. incapable of producing profitable yields of a crop <sick soils> • sickly adverb II. noun Date: 1957 British vomit 1

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. adj., n., & v. --adj. 1 (often in comb.) esp. Brit. vomiting or tending to vomit (feels sick; has been sick; seasick). 2 esp. US ill; affected by illness (has been sick for a week; a sick man; sick with measles). 3 a (often foll. by at) esp. mentally perturbed; disordered (the product of a sick mind; sick at heart). b (often foll. by for, or in comb.) pining; longing (sick for a sight of home; lovesick). 4 (often foll. by of) colloq. a disgusted; surfeited (sick of chocolates). b angry, esp. because of surfeit (am sick of being teased). 5 colloq. (of humour etc.) jeering at misfortune, illness, death, etc.; morbid (sick joke). 6 (of a ship) needing repair (esp. of a specified kind) (paint-sick). --n. Brit. colloq. vomit. --v.tr. (usu. foll. by up) Brit. colloq. vomit (sicked up his dinner). Phrases and idioms: go sick report oneself as ill. look sick colloq. be unimpressive or embarrassed. sick at (or to) one's stomach US vomiting or tending to vomit. sick-benefit Brit. an allowance made by the State to a person absent from work through sickness. sick building syndrome a high incidence of illness in office workers, attributed to the immediate working surroundings. sick-call 1 a visit by a doctor to a sick person etc. 2 Mil. a summons for sick men to attend. sick-flag a yellow flag indicating disease at a quarantine station or on ship. sick headache a migraine headache with vomiting. sick-leave leave of absence granted because of illness. sick-list a list of the sick, esp. in a regiment, ship, etc. sick-making colloq. sickening. sick nurse = NURSE. sick-pay pay given to an employee etc. on sick-leave. take sick colloq. be taken ill. Derivatives: sickish adj. Etymology: OE seoc f. Gmc 2. v.tr. (usu. in imper.) (esp. to a dog) set upon (a rat etc.). Etymology: 19th c., dial. var. of SEEK

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sicker, sickest) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you are sick, you are ill. Sick usually means physically ill, but it can sometimes be used to mean mentally ill. He's very sick. He needs medication... She found herself with two small children, a sick husband, and no money... ADJ • The sick are people who are sick. There were no doctors to treat the sick. N-PLURAL: the N 2. If you are sick, the food that you have eaten comes up from your stomach and out of your mouth. If you feel sick, you feel as if you are going to be sick. She got up and was sick in the handbasin... The very thought of food made him feel sick... ADJ: v-link ADJ 3. Sick is vomit. (BRIT INFORMAL) 4. If you say that you are sick of something or sick and tired of it, you are emphasizing that you are very annoyed by it and want it to stop. (INFORMAL) I am sick and tired of hearing all these people moaning... = fed up ADJ: v-link ADJ of n/-ing [emphasis] 5. If you describe something such as a joke or story as sick, you mean that it deals with death or suffering in an unpleasantly humorous way. ...a sick joke about a cat... ADJ [disapproval] 6. If you say that something or someone makes you sick, you mean that they make you feel angry or disgusted. (INFORMAL) It makes me sick that people commit offences and never get punished... PHRASE: V inflects, oft it PHR that 7. If you are off sick, you are not at work because you are ill. When we are off sick, we only receive half pay. PHRASE: usu v-link PHR 8. If you say that you are worried sick, you are emphasizing that you are extremely worried. (INFORMAL) He was worried sick about what our mothers would say. PHRASE: v-link PHR [emphasis]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Ill, indisposed, ailing, unwell, laid up. 2. Nauseated, affected with nausea, sick at the stomach, inclined to vomit. 3. Disgusted, tired, weary. 4. Diseased, weak, morbid, unsound, distempered, disordered, feeble. 5. Pining, languishing, longing.

Moby Thesaurus

abnormal, affected, afflicted, ailing, airsick, amiss, annoyed, appalled, bad, below par, bent, bereft of reason, bizarre, blase, bored, brainsick, burdened, carsick, chagrined, comfortless, confined, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, critically ill, cronk, crook, daft, debilitated, defective, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, desolate, desole, disconsolate, diseased, disgusted, disordered, disoriented, dispirited, distraught, disturbed, down, faint, faintish, fed-up, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, fevered, flawed, flighty, forlorn, funny, ghoulish, good and tired, grotesque, gruesome, hallucinated, heartsick, heartsore, ill, imperfect, in danger, inconsolable, indisposed, infirm, insane, irked, irrational, irritated, jaded, kinky, laid low, laid up, life-weary, loco, lousy, lunatic, macabre, mad, maddened, manic, masochistic, mazed, mean, melancholic, melancholy, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, miserable, moon-struck, morbid, morose, mortally ill, nauseated, neurotic, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not quite right, not right, odd, of unsound mind, off, off-color, offended, out of sorts, peaked, peaking, peaky, peculiar, poorly, psycho, psychoneurotic, psychotic, put out, qualmish, queasy, queer, reasonless, repelled, repulsed, revolted, rocky, rotten, sadistic, satiated, seasick, seedy, senseless, shocked, shocking, sick at heart, sick of, sick unto death, sickened, sickish, sickly, soul-sick, splenetic, squeamish, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stricken, taken ill, tetched, tired, tired of, tired of living, tired to death, tottering, touched, troubled, unbalanced, unconsolable, unconventional, under the weather, unhealthy, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unwell, upset, wandering, wearied, weariful, weary, weary unto death, weird, witless, wobbly, world-weary, wretched