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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  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.
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              Behold them that are sick with famine. --Jer. xiv.
                                                    18.
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     2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit;
        as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
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     3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of;
        as, to be sick of flattery.
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              He was not so sick of his master as of his work.
                                                    --L'Estrange.
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     4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
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              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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Sick \Sick\, n.
     Sickness. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Sick \Sick\, v. i.
     To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] --Shak.
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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\, 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.
  
              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\, n.
     Sickness. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  sick
       adj 1: not in good physical or mental health; "ill from the
              monotony of his suffering" [syn: ill] [ant: well]
       2: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated, queasy,
           sickish]
       3: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
          [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed,
           mad, 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)]
       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" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast,
            cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke,
            barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate,
            throw up] [ant: keep down]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  sick
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 άρρωστος
     2 αρρωστημένος
     3 φρικαλέος

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  sick
     a.
     (lb en less common in the UK) In poor health; ill.
     n.
     1 (lb en British AU colloquial) vomit.
     2 (lb en British colloquial) (especially in the phrases on the sick
  and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or
  allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or
  incapacitated.
     vb.
     1 (lb en British AU colloquial) To vomit.
     2 (lb en obsolete except in dialect intransitive) To fall sick; to
  sicken.
     vb.
     (lb en rare) (alternative spelling of en sic t=set upon)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  Sick
     n.
     (surname en from=German).

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  sick
     a.
     (lb en less common in the UK) In poor health; ill.
     n.
     1 (lb en British AU colloquial) vomit.
     2 (lb en British colloquial) (especially in the phrases on the sick
  and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or
  allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or
  incapacitated.
     vb.
     1 (lb en British AU colloquial) To vomit.
     2 (lb en obsolete except in dialect intransitive) To fall sick; to
  sicken.
     vb.
     (lb en rare) (alternative spelling of en sic t=set upon)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  Sick
     n.
     (surname en from=German).

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  sick
     a.
     (lb en less common in the UK) In poor health; ill.
     n.
     1 (lb en British AU colloquial) vomit.
     2 (lb en British colloquial) (especially in the phrases on the sick
  and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or
  allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or
  incapacitated.
     vb.
     1 (lb en British AU colloquial) To vomit.
     2 (lb en obsolete except in dialect intransitive) To fall sick; to
  sicken.
     vb.
     (lb en rare) (alternative spelling of en sic t=set upon)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  Sick
     n.
     (surname en from=German).

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  sick
     a.
     (lb en less common in the UK) In poor health; ill.
     n.
     1 (lb en British AU colloquial) vomit.
     2 (lb en British colloquial) (especially in the phrases on the sick
  and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or
  allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or
  incapacitated.
     vb.
     1 (lb en British AU colloquial) To vomit.
     2 (lb en obsolete except in dialect intransitive) To fall sick; to
  sicken.
     vb.
     (lb en rare) (alternative spelling of en sic t=set upon)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  Sick
     n.
     (surname en from=German).

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  sick
     Englanti a.
     1 (''lääketiede'') sairas
     2 sairasmielinen
     3 (''maatalous'') heikkotuottoinen

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  sick
     n.
     inpressad ränna i plåt som är halvcirkelformad använd som prydnad
  eller för att öka plåtens stadga

From Swedish Wiktionary: Swedish language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-sv-2023-07-27 ]


  sick
     n.
     inpressad ränna i plåt som är halvcirkelformad använd som prydnad
  eller för att öka plåtens stadga

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-afr ]


  sick /sˈɪk/
  siek

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Sick /sˈɪk/
  مريض

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  sick //sɪk// 
  бо́лен, болен
  ill, used as a substantive: sick people, collectively

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  sick //sɪk// 
  повръщам
  vomit