sick (adj.)

  1. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; ill from the monotony of his suffering

    [ Syn: ill ]

    sick (n.)

  1. people who are sick; they devote their lives to caring for the sick'

    sick (adj.)

  1. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

    [ Syn: nauseated , nauseous , queasy , sickish ]

  2. affected with madness or insanity; a man who had gone mad

    [ Syn: brainsick , crazy , demented , disturbed , mad , unbalanced , unhinged ]

  3. 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 of , tired of ]

  4. (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 ]

  5. deeply affected by a strong feeling; sat completely still, sick with envy; she was sick with longing'

  6. 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 (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 , cat , be sick , disgorge , regorge , retch , puke , barf , spew , spue , chuck , upchuck , honk , regurgitate , throw up ]

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