sick
sik
- n people who are sick
they devote their lives to caring for the sick - v eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- a affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- s feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
- s affected with madness or insanity
- s having a strong distaste from surfeit
sick of it all
sick to death of flattery
gossip that makes one sick - s (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- s deeply affected by a strong feeling
sat completely still, sick with envy
she was sick with longing - s shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- The success of the sick comics has given amateur analysts and sociologists a field day.
- And sociologists, both professional and amateur, see in the sick comedians a symptom of the 20th century's own sickness.
- The sick headache, that nuisance in households one of whose members suffers therefrom, last week received close study at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.