sick Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun people who are sick
   
   • they devote their lives to caring for the sick
2. verb eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
   retch; regorge; be sick; disgorge; spew; vomit up; puke; honk; cat; purge; cast; spue; upchuck; vomit; barf; regurgitate; throw up; chuck.
   
   • After drinking too much, the students vomited
   • He purged continuously
   • The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
3. adjective affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
   ill.
   
   • ill from the monotony of his suffering
4. adjective satellite feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
   queasy; nauseous; nauseated; sickish.
   
5. adjective satellite affected with madness or insanity
   crazy; unhinged; brainsick; demented; disturbed; mad; unbalanced.
   
   • a man who had gone mad
6. adjective satellite having a strong distaste from surfeit
   sick of; tired of; fed up; disgusted.
   
   • 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
7. adjective satellite (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
   pallid; pale; wan.
   
   • 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
8. adjective satellite deeply affected by a strong feeling
   
   • sat completely still, sick with envy
   • she was sick with longing
9. adjective satellite shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
   macabre; grisly; ghastly; gruesome; grim.
   
   • 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

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