Definitions for sicker

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sicker sick·er

Spelling: [sik-er]

IPA: /ˈsɪk ər/

Sicker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in sicker (ceikrs).

Definitions for sicker

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.

adverb

1. certainly; without doubt.

adjective

1. comparative of sick1 .
2. safe from danger; secure.
3. dependable; trustworthy.
4. afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
5. affected with nausea; inclined to vomit.
6. deeply affected with some unpleasant feeling, as of sorrow, disgust, or boredom:
7. mentally, morally, or emotionally deranged, corrupt, or unsound:
8. characteristic of a sick mind:
9. dwelling on or obsessed with that which is gruesome, sadistic, ghoulish, or the like; morbid:
10. of, relating to, or for use during sickness:
11. accompanied by or suggestive of sickness; sickly:
12. disgusted; chagrined.
13. not in proper condition; impaired.
14. Slang. great; amazing:
15. Agriculture. failing to sustain adequate harvests of some crop, usually specified: containing harmful microorganisms:
16. Now Rare. menstruating.

Origin of sicker

before 900; Middle English siker, Old English sicor; cognate with Dutch zeker, German sicher, all ≪ Latin sēcūrus; see secure

Examples for sicker

The new insurance system relies on young, healthy consumers to help share the risk with older, sicker ones.

And, as predicted by numerous professionals, they are sicker and more dangerous than when they went behind bars.

I don't say Ireland is sound, but she is no sicker than she ever was.

First is this: the vaguer the dispatches, the sicker the patient.

Americans are sicker and taking more pills than ever, and our doctors are miserable.

John tells me you were sicker than 283 people usually are at such times.

How, then, do you not recognize one whose heart is sicker than your own?

You shall be sicker yet, if you do not speak to some purpose.

Putting younger workers in the same plans forces them to subsidize the sicker and older.

But he never heard any music, and this, instead of calming his nerves, made him sicker.