Definitions for sick

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Spelling: [sik]

IPA: /sɪk/

Sick is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in sick (ciks).

Definitions for sick

noun

1. (used with a plural verb) sick persons collectively (usually preceded by the).

Idioms

1. call in sick, to notify one's place of employment by telephone that one will be absent from work because of being ill.
2. sick and tired, utterly weary; fed up:
3. sick at one's stomach, Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. nauseated.
4. sick to one's stomach, Chiefly Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. nauseated.

adjective

1. afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
2. affected with nausea; inclined to vomit.
3. deeply affected with some unpleasant feeling, as of sorrow, disgust, or boredom:
4. mentally, morally, or emotionally deranged, corrupt, or unsound:
5. characteristic of a sick mind:
6. dwelling on or obsessed with that which is gruesome, sadistic, ghoulish, or the like; morbid:
7. of, relating to, or for use during sickness:
8. accompanied by or suggestive of sickness; sickly:
9. disgusted; chagrined.
10. not in proper condition; impaired.
11. Slang. great; amazing:
12. Agriculture. failing to sustain adequate harvests of some crop, usually specified: containing harmful microorganisms:
13. Now Rare. menstruating.

verb (used with object)

1. sic1 .
2. to attack (used especially in commanding a dog):
3. to incite to attack (usually followed by on).

Origin of sick

before 900; Middle English sik, sek, Old English sēoc; cognate with Dutch ziek, German siech, Old Norse sjūkr, Gothic siuks

Examples for sick

The flames had been suddenly quenched within him, and he felt cold and sick.

Robin's pale, blank face had a sick look, a deadly smoothness.

If she is sick or has an emergency, she forfeits any pay for that day.

And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.

His spirit yearned after his father, and his heart was sick for his forest home.

When I last saw her she was providing for five sick and injured ones.

It happens, of course, but the less time a person is sick, the better their chances of recovery.

I was sick in street gutters, onto my desk, at dinners with friends.

Terrible jarrin' to the nerves when folks come in and call on a sick man.

We are the sick ones who torment trans people every day of their lives.