sick : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sick	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for sick
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sick adj affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" Synonym(s): ill, sick Antonym(s): well feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit Synonym(s): nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" Synonym(s): brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged 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" Synonym(s): disgusted, fed up(p), sick(p), sick of(p), tired of(p) (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" Synonym(s): pale, pallid, wan, sick deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing" 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" Synonym(s): ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick n people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick" v 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" Synonym(s): vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up Antonym(s): keep down
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sick \Sick\, a. [Compar. {Sicker}; superl. {Sickest}.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. se[a2]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sick \Sick\, v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sick \Sick\, n. Sickness. [Obs.] --Chaucer.