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Webster 1913 Edition


Sick

Sick

,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Sicker
;
sup
erl.
Sickest
.]
[OE.
sek
,
sik
, ill, AS.
seóc
; akin to OS.
siok
,
seoc
, OFries.
siak
, D.
ziek
, G.
siech
, OHG.
sioh
, Icel.
sj[GREEK]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.
[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

,
Noun.
Sickness.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Sick

,
Verb.
I.
To fall sick; to sicken.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sick

SICK

,
Adj.
[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

,
Verb.
T.
To make sick. [Not in use. See Sicken.]

Definition 2024


sick

sick

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sĭk, IPA(key): /sɪk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪk
  • Homophones: sic, Sikh

Adjective

sick (comparative sicker, superlative sickest)

  1. Having an urge to vomit.
  2. (chiefly US) In poor health.
    • a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, ISBN 1163911380, page 63:
      Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess:
      ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’
    She was sick all day with the flu.
  3. (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
  4. (colloquial) In bad taste.
    That's a sick joke.
  5. Tired of or annoyed by something.
    I've heard that song on the radio so many times that I'm starting to get sick of it.
    I'm so sick of that same old love, the kind that breaks your heart.
  6. (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
    This tune is sick.
    Dude, this car's got a sick subwoofer!
  7. In poor condition.
    sick building syndrome; my car is looking pretty sick; my job prospects are pretty sick
  8. (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

sick (uncountable)

  1. Sick people in general as a group.
    We have to cure the sick.
  2. (colloquial) vomit.
    He lay there in a pool of his own sick.
Synonyms
  • (vomit): See Wikisaurus:vomit
Translations

Verb

sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)

  1. To vomit.
    I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.
    • circa 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 2:
      Our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died.

Etymology 2

Verb

sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)

  1. (rare) Alternative spelling of sic
    • 1920, James Oliver Curwood, "Back to God's Country"
      "Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick 'em, Wapi—sick 'em—sick 'em—sick 'em!"
    • 1938, Eugene Gay-Tifft, translator, The Saga of Frank Dover by Johannes Buchholtz, 2005 Kessinger Publishing edition, ISBN 141915222X, page 125,
      When we were at work swabbing the deck, necessarily barelegged, Pelle would sick the dog on us; and it was an endless source of pleasure to him when the dog succeeded in fastening its teeth in our legs and making the blood run down our ankles.
    • 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 154,
      "...is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."
    • 2001 (publication date), Anna Heilman, Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman, University of Calgary Press, ISBN 1552380408, page 82,
      Now they find a new entertainment: they sick the dog on us.