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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. people who are sick;
- Example: "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"


VERB (1)

1. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth;
- Example: "After drinking too much, the students vomited"
- Example: "He purged continuously"
- Example: "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]


ADJECTIVE (7)

1. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function;
- Example: "ill from the monotony of his suffering"
[syn: ill, sick]

2. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit;
[syn: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish]

3. affected with madness or insanity;
- Example: "a man who had gone mad"
[syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]

4. having a strong distaste from surfeit;
- Example: "grew more and more disgusted"
- Example: "fed up with their complaints"
- Example: "sick of it all"
- Example: "sick to death of flattery"
- Example: "gossip that makes one sick"
- Example: "tired of the noise and smoke"
[syn: disgusted, fed up(p), sick(p), sick of(p), tired of(p)]

5. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble;
- Example: "the pale light of a half moon"
- Example: "a pale sun"
- Example: "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"
- Example: "a pallid sky"
- Example: "the pale (or wan) stars"
- Example: "the wan light of dawn"
[syn: pale, pallid, wan, sick]

6. deeply affected by a strong feeling;
- Example: "sat completely still, sick with envy"
- Example: "she was sick with longing"

7. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;
- Example: "ghastly wounds"
- Example: "the grim aftermath of the bombing"
- Example: "the grim task of burying the victims"
- Example: "a grisly murder"
- Example: "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"
- Example: "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"
- Example: "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
[syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sick \Sick\, n. Sickness. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sick \Sick\, v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. --Mark i. 30. [1913 Webster] Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv. 18. [1913 Webster] 2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache. [1913 Webster] 3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. [1913 Webster] He was not so sick of his master as of his work. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] 4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sick 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(p), sick(p), sick of(p), tired of(p)] 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]